William Byron Wins Daytona 500 After Massive Crash Wrecks Half The Field

An enormous crash marred the ultimate laps of the Daytona 500 … as 23 vehicles in whole pinballed off one another in a wild mess towards the tip of the famed race — though the carnage finally allowed underdog William Byron to come back out with the win.

The chaos occurred with eight laps to go at Daytona Worldwide Speedway in Florida … when Alex Bowman began the wreck by nudging Byron.

The bump brought about Byron’s No. 24 automotive to slip into Brad Keselowski‘s … which set off an enormous chain response of accidents.

Try the replay from the race’s broadcast … greater than half of the 40 autos within the area acquired caught up within the melee.

Someway, Byron escaped all of it unscathed … and after one other set of drivers wrecked just a few moments after officers acquired the observe all cleaned up, the 26-year-old was declared the winner.

Afterward, he celebrated like loopy … telling reporters he could not imagine all of it was really occurring.

The race, in the meantime, was delayed a full day … after rain pressured NASCAR officers to maneuver it from its typical Sunday begin time to Monday.

Whereas Pitbull couldn’t carry out his scheduled prerace live performance as deliberate … The Rock nonetheless made it out to the festivities — and fired up the group when he informed the racers to start out their engines.