1996 Winston Select 500 Crash at Talladega

Ricky Craven flips up into the catchfence in turn 1 multiple views

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[WWE1119]

How did Craven flip anyway...I saw him come down to the bottom of the track just after martin hit Ward Burton but who got into him to flip him?

[Twister243]

It was a combonation of Martin and another car clipping and overturning Craven, a lot like Waltrip in '05 at Talladega.

[grungyflannel]

rusty drivin right into the middle of the big one....guy was like a magnet for those things....the car right in front of him made it thru....but no rusty's gotta go plowin into the middle of it

[Twister243]

lmao

[Mandipooh912]

Thanks so much for posting this! This wreck got me watching racing every week!

[Twister243]

no problem

[Speedy670SV]

that would be weird to be one of those cars that went underneath him

[TheLethal007]

If you see Hut Stricklin #8 right behind him you can see him tag Craven to make him flip.

[jaqua524]

@Mandipooh912 so you are an asshole fan who watches it for wrecks..

[blackjack21211]

@WWE1119 Craven got help from behind from what looks like a red car with white numbers ( Maybe John Andretti ? ) and it looked like Craven's car drove up the nose of Mark Martin's car like a ramp. Rolled him over. At least thats how I see it.

[overdrive71080]

Ricky suffered a concussion in this crash and was told to pull it in on lap 1 at Sonoma and put Ron Hornaday in the car, but Ricky had to be blackflagged because NASCAR told him to bring the car in on lap 1 be kept going til lap 3

[C0LL1N]

haha I like how they went on and on about how ricky craven flew over a bunch of cars and hit the catchfence and then later the guy was like "SOME car hit the roof of ricky rudds tide ford" like he didnt know who it was

[flclfan85]

I remember watching this when it happend, it was freakin' brutal

[westonlg24]

I remember this one, Thats why I was looking for it, I thought I had remembered him going higher up the catch gate though. But I definately remember martin gettin knocked out of race, and 5 people driving under craven.

[RuneMacer55]

@grungyflannel i think rusty was in every single big one in talladega from 1988-2004

[DGeorge819]

There's a vid somewhere on YouTube that has Jeff Gordon's on-board cam of this crash. Talk about wild

[Maxokll]

@icommentonurstuff He does commentary on an ESPN (maybe Speed?) after show I believe, and even now he doesn't quite look right.