Patrick Sheltra Huge Crash Daytona 2009 HD

In honor of the upcoming speedweeks, I'm posting the scary crash from the ARCA race last year. He was out for a while but he made a full recovery. Sorry about the "awesome" thing. I agree that was not necessary.

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Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• international
• speedway
• sheltras
• amazing
• hard
• hit

[IamTheShermanator]

I'll always remember that sound. This was probably the scariest wreck I've ever watched live.

[SparkPlugRocks]

It was definately awesome, in a bad way, i was in awe after that, with the sound. I thought he was dead at first.

[JDisturbed]

Watching this live was absolutely terrifying because after it, they weren't showing you the result of it, nor were they showing replays.  I was sure it was fatal... Thank goodness it wasn't.

[88junor]

Damn, Patrick spun four and a half times before he finally stopped.

[Thecartoonnascarfan]

Ouch.

[NismoFinder]

@IamTheShermanator You should have heard it in person!...I was sitting at the start finish line about halfway up the grandstands and when my GF and I saw and heard that happen, us and everyone around us was in shock and dead silent cause we thought he was dead for sure....Lucky guy.

[Hlover01]

im starting to think ARCA cars dont have brakes

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

@norabudgie Both survived. Sheltra won the very next race at Salem, and he won the 2010 ARCA championship.

Hollenbeck hasn't been in a racecar since.

[norabudgie]

did they survive

[shawndeweerd]

@timlinisabeast ARCA has a long break between Daytona and their next race. Sheltra was able to recover and get his FIRST ARCA victory at Salem Speedway.

[RetroGamerr1991]

Every time my friends and I spin out in a Stock Car lobby on Forza 3, we all wreck into the spun out car without even attempting to slow down or avoid it and we yell ARCA.

[ma55aracin9]

yeah; it went ALMOST like that scary crash during the 1984 Gatorade Twins