2008 AMP Energy 500 Practice - Dale Jr's Tire Explodes

After completing only 5 laps in happy hour his tire explodes and rips the back of the car off, collecting tony stewart, clint bowyer and others in the crash. Credit To The SPEED Channel.

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[porsche403]

1:02 no ass end on 88

[porsche403]

0:54 the rear is almost screwed

[O5fan]

Bob Dilner and his camera guy just walked through people to get the rear of the car, as though it was an emergency.

[Shammons55]

Well, it's not like he could have controlled it. That was just a matter of chance combined with pitiful goodyear rubber.

[eharvey3]

i was sitting on the front strech when this happened and as far away as i was sitting u could see the back end of the car just explode like it was nothing. goodyear has to get a tire that will last with the new car

[jawaman77]

Yeah really!! :(

And gotta agree with cousinearl216, this time was worse this time because someone ended up atthe hospital.

[cousinearl216]

it did end up worse than tht

[hockeygoalie9905]

almost ended up like indy didnt it lol

[jrfan07]

yea its more of the car than anything else, but still goodyear was prepared in the spring because there were no problems then, and no problems in the inagural cot race at dega one year ago, so its kinda up in the air. though goodyear officials did say that this tire failure was most likely due to running over debris, i find it hard to believe there was that much debris on the track alllll weekend long, its happened in arca, trucks, and cup so far. i hope ir resolves itself before tomorow:D

[legonascar88fan]

DAMN IT!

why jr

not jr