The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series made their second stop at Pocono Raceway over the weekend, and the talk around the water cooler this week isn't going to be about the winner or the side-by-side action, but it will revolve around a devastating-looking crash on lap 165 that barely made it into the television frame of the ESPN broadcast.
Bump drafting, or the art of one car slamming another in the rear bumper to give it an extra boost, was going on all over the track. In this instance, Jimmie Johnson in the Lowes Chevrolet gave Kurt Busch in the Miller Lite Dodge a shot to clear another car. Busch lost control, and slammed hard in the outside wall, then crossed back down the track to glance off the inside steel barrier.
Meanwhile, Elliot Sadler in the U.S. Air Force Ford, was collected in the chain reaction of events behind the initial accident. Sadler barreled head-on into the corner of a dangerous guardrail that was fortified by a dirt-pack berm behind it. The force of the impact was so great that it literally launched the entire engine out of the car and on the ground several feet away.
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