ARCA Remax Series Daytona 2009

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — James Buescher held off Joey Logano in a battle of 18-year-olds on the final lap of Saturday's crash-marred ARCA RE/MAX Series race at Daytona International Speedway that sent three drivers to the hospital.

The 80-lap event was slowed by a series of multicar wrecks, including a three-car accident six laps from the end that brought out a red flag.

Patrick Sheltra, running third, was hit from behind by pole-winner Justin Lofton, sending Sheltra's car into the wall. As it slid back down the banking on the 2.5-mile oval, Sheltra's car was slammed hard and sent into a spin by the trailing car of Larry Hollenbeck.

It took safety workers about 20 minutes to get Sheltra out of his battered car. He and Hollenbeck were taken by ambulance to Halifax Medical Health Center. The series said the drivers were conscious and alert, and would remain at the hospital overnight for further evaluation.

Bobby Gerhart, who hit the wall earlier in the race after a tire blew, was taken to the same hospital for observation and later released.

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[DialgaRules24]

this race was insane

[F1V1]

Larry Hollenbeck is a fucking idiot, he could have fucking killed somebody. When you see the smoke up ahead, you DO NOT kick down the throttle, you slow down.

[USAF2409]

People who drive the ARCA cars seem like they dont know how to drive. they want to see someone die. oh look a car in the wall let me T bone him to see if i can kill him!

[DJB24966]

@adame3383 You don't slide to the bottom of the track when you are on a surface that is not as banked as the corner. Hollenbeck is an idiot, plain and simple.

[xmn86]

another thing too i don't think people noticed is look at frank kimmel speed up as hollenbacks car came near....he might have gotten hit too obv not as bad though but that was quick thinking by him

[xmn86]

@adame3383 look at the 4 of ken weaver way slowed down on the apron...he was ahead of the 23....and you can also see no major change in pace of the 23...all he did was let off...a huge mistake and hopefully people learn that letting off and staying at high speed wont help you avoid a crash

[xmn86]

@adame3383 so why is that car on the apron completely slowed up and was ahead of hollenback while the 23 is still going well over 150...doesnt matter what your spotter says if you dont just let off the gas you must hit the brakes and he obv did not

[F1V1]

@adame3383 I know a lot about driving a race car believe me. I know more about motorsports than most would. Clearly I know that his spotter wasn't on top of his game himself. But showing from the replay, it's pretty clear as well that Hollenbeck didn't slow down much if at all. I agree, things do happen, but a SENSIBLE driver would have been able to slow down much better than he did, considering the accident happened way before he even came into the scene of it.

[adame3383]

@F1V1 And on top of that he has a spotter telling him where to go, if his spotter said stay high then he does that, it's not as easy as it looks on TV, we have the benefit of looking at the replay over and over. We weren't in the drivers seat at the time to see what Larry saw or hear what Larry was being told, all we do is make assumptions from an angle that is much easier to see than being strapped in a race car. Think about those things before calling someone an idiot.

[adame3383]

@F1V1 How do you know he didn't slow down? It's hard to come down from 180-190 to a dead stop, on top of that these are ARCA cars. Most of the teams, Hollenbeck's I know for sure, are under funded and don't have top of the line equipment, and brakes, making it much more difficult to stop. I mean if we had a replay from Hollenbecks car you could probably tell that he let off the gas and tried to slow down as much as possible, in racing things happen, even the most experienced make mistakes.

[F1V1]

@adame3383 But even if Hollenbeck had hit him going 75 MPH, that's still a hard hit considering Sheltra was stationary on the track. And any sensible race car driver knows that when you see an accident occurring ahead of you, no matter where you think the cars are on the track, you slow down, you don't continue at your speed. This isn't Days of Thunder, you don't "drop the hammer" and pray for the best because this is the real deal, and someone could actually be injured.

[adame3383]

@F1V1 One thing you have to realize is that Sheltra's car wasn't moving, so even if Hollenbeck hit him going 75 mph it's gonna look bad. Second is that when a crash happens in a turn at Daytona the cars usually go to the bottom of the track, Larry thought that was going to happen but it didn't. It happens.