Last year: Daniel Suarez edged Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch in a three-wide finish. There were 10 cautions and an Atlanta-record 47 lead changes, alongside a pileup of at least 16 cars, the biggest in the history of Atlanta Motor Speedway. Last race: William Byron captured his second Daytona 500 win while narrowly avoiding a final-lap crash.

Byron shot from ninth to first on the final lap after Denny Hamlin and Austin Cindric crashed racing for the win

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But Preece in the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford suffered the worst of the wreck, first going airborne and landing on Erik Jones’ No. 43 Legacy Motor Club Toyota before being totally upside down on the track. Eventually, the car barrel-rolled up the track and landed on its wheels in Turn 3.

Ryan Preece's terrifying crash at the final moments of the 2025 Daytona 500 took many by shock. But after the race, he looked back on the incident with chilling words. His car found itself in the air after a chain of collisions started by Christopher Bell,