Driver's brave message after ghastly NASCAR crash

NASCAR operator Ryan Preece, whose car tube rolled astir a twelve times during a terrifying clang astatine Daytona (watch it successful the video above) connected Sunday greeting (AEST), has been discharged from hospital.

The Stewart-Haas Racing squad said Preece was headed location aft getting clearance from doctors astatine a infirmary adjacent the track. The squad earlier said Preece was “awake, alert and mobile" and “had been communicating with household and friends.”

The 32-year-old Preece was capable to ascent retired of his mangled Ford connected with assistance earlier exigency workers enactment him connected a gurney and into an ambulance. He initially went to the track's infield attraction centre earlier being transported to infirmary for overnight observation.

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Preece tweeted astir 2 hours aft the race, posting: “If you privation to beryllium a contention car driver, you amended beryllium tough. ... I’m coming back.”

NASCAR operator Ryan Preece has been released from infirmary aft this terrifying clang astatine Daytona connected Sunday (AEST). (NASCAR)

Preece and teammate Chase Briscoe made interaction coming retired of crook two, and Preece's car turned hard near and past went into an uncontrollable tube rotation arsenic soon arsenic it slid from the asphalt to the infield grass. The car came to a halt connected each 4 tyres, with immoderate insignificant harm to the rotation cage.

Preece being capable to ascent retired with assistance was a testament to NASCAR's Next Gen car, which is considered the safest iteration successful its 75-year history.

The car was roundly criticised pursuing its debut past play due to the fact that rear-impact collisions wreaked havoc connected drivers. Kurt Busch suffered a life-changing concussion during a qualifying clang astatine Pocono Raceway, and Hendrick Motorsports operator Alex Bowman missed 5 races due to the fact that of a concussion.

Multiple different drivers complained astir the unit felt during what they considered regular hits and wondered if they excessively had suffered caput trauma.

NASCAR spent overmuch of past twelvemonth and the offseason investigating and tweaking its car to effort to bounds the G-forces delivered to drivers. The changes were welcomed, resulting successful considerably less missed races and nary reported concussions successful 2023.

Busch, meanwhile, formally retired from NASCAR's apical tier of racing implicit the weekend. The 45-year-old held backmost tears arsenic helium called it quits, saying his “body is conscionable having a conflict with Father Time.”

Preece' clang brought backmost memories of Ryan Newman's terrifying clang astatine the aforesaid way successful 2020. (Getty)

Busch added he's dealt with arthritis and gout portion trying to shingle lingering effects of the encephalon wounded that rocked banal car racing a twelvemonth ago.

Preece's mishap harkened memories of Ryan Newman's harrowing wreck successful the 2020 Daytona 500. Newman was capable to locomotion retired of the infirmary days later, different testament to NASCAR information improvements made since Dale Earnhardt's decease connected the last thigh of the 2001 Daytona 500.