Bubba Wallace's Wild Ride Triggers Talladega's Biggest Wreck of the Season, Collecting 26 Cars in Shocking Crash
A massive 26-car pileup at Talladega Superspeedway turned the Cup Series race into organized chaos after Bubba Wallace got sent sideways at the worst possible moment, collecting half the field in one of NASCAR's wildest "Big Ones" in recent memory.
Image Credit: NASCAR / TikTok. Talladega Superspeedway has a reputation for making grown men nervous, and it delivered on that promise in a big way during Sunday's Cup Series race. What started as a relatively calm, fuel-saving affair turned into a full-scale demolition derby when race leader Bubba Wallace got a bump from Ross Chastain at the end of the back straightaway that sent his No.
23 Toyota sideways at exactly the wrong time, in exactly the wrong place, in front of exactly the wrong crowd of cars. The result? A 26-car catastrophe that sent smoke billowing through Turn 3 and left pit crews scrambling to piece together what was left of their machines.
NASCAR fans know the drill at Talladega. The "Big One" isn't a question of if, it's a question of when and who. This time, it came for nearly two-thirds of the field.
By the time the red flag came out at Lap 116 to clear the debris, some of the biggest names in the sport were either parked in the garage or waiting in line at the infield care center. Connor Zilisch, Ty Gibbs, Daniel Suarez, William Byron, Carson Hocevar, Erik Jones, Ryan Blaney, and Kyle Larson were all swept up in the carnage. So were Kyle Busch, Josh Berry, Shane van Gisbergen, Joey Logano, and Tyler Reddick, among others.
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