With no right-front fender, Tyler Reddick received final weekend’s NASCAR Cup race in Atlanta, going back-to-back to open the 2026 season.
Whereas spectacular, it isn’t unprecedented. NASCAR is a full-contact sport ultimately and we have seen loads of race successful automobiles take the checkered flag in less-than-ideal form.
So, let’s check out a few of the most beat up automobiles to win on the highest stage of NASCAR. And no, crashing throughout the road does not depend, so do not anticipate finding Terry Labonte’s 1995 Bristol automobile or Davey Allison’s 1992 All-Star automobile right here! Although we did have a spirited debate over Jeff Burton slamming the wall because the rain got here and ended Darlington in 1999…
However actually, we may by no means spotlight all of them — NASCAR races can get fairly wild with the checkered flag in sight. However here is a few of the extra well-known moments the place a wrecked or broken automobile nonetheless received the day:
Atlanta 2025 — Tyler Reddick with a lacking fender
Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
Picture by: Jonathan Bachman – Getty Photographs
Talladega 2024 — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. with a gap within the door
Picture by: Jeff Robinson / Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs
Daytona Conflict 2020 — Erik Jones with the nostril punched in
Picture by: David Rosenblum / Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs
Chicagoland 2018 — Kyle Busch with a pancaked right-side door
Picture by: Jonathan Daniel through Getty Photographs
Daytona 500 2017 — Kurt Busch with battle-scars and tape
Picture by: Jeff Robinson / Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs
Martinsville 1991 — Harry Gant with a twisted nostril and no fender
Picture by: ESPN broadcast
Daytona 500 1976 — David Pearson with a destroyed frontend
Picture by: ISC Archives
North Wilkesboro 1972 — Richard Petty with the entrance bumper hanging off
Picture by: SC Photographs & Archives through Getty Photographs
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