Mid-race crash collects Elliott, Blaney, Reddick, others

Entering Turn 3, Tyler Reddick was getting a push from Kevin Harvick. He got loose and slammed the outside wall.

While Ross Chastain narrowly avoided, others weren’t so lucky. Ryan Blaney, Chase Elliott, Erik Jones, and Daniel Suarez were all collected. Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr. also got a piece of it.

Elliott, Jones, and Reddick were unable to return to the race. Blaney continued on with significant damage, later losing a right front tire.

“Down the back when he (Harvick) got to my rear bumper it just didn’t really seem – when I had clean air there – that my car was really stable,” said Reddick, after being released from the infield care center. “I thought it moves around a little bit down the back, I’ve had this before, but yeah, I was kind of caught off guard by what happened in the corner. Unfortunately, it was the first time I’ve been put in that situation, I got loose and unfortunately took out some other good cars.”

He later added: “The car just unfortunately didn’t have the stability that it needed to have. It was dancing around a little bit down the back straightaway and a little bump into turn three I would be okay. The car just came around right away and now our car is out of the race and took out a lot of other good cars too.”

The first car to fall out of the race happened earlier, when Ty Dillon lost an engine during the first stage.