When Ryan Preece pulled a wheelie and flipped at the Daytona 500 earlier this year, he called for NASCAR to take action to help keep the Next Gen (Gen-7) cars from taking flight. There have been eight occasions where Cup cars have gone completely upside down in the last three years of competition, including five in the last calendar year.
Unfortunately, Preece has the distinction of being the most recent driver to flip a Gen-7 Cup car, and the driver who endured the most violent airborne crash when he barrel-rolled nearly a dozen times at Daytona in the summer of 2023. In a recent interview with Motorsport.com, Preece said how he hopes for a solution "sooner than later" and believes NASCAR will "find a solution that everybody is happy with" in the end.
