Another late-race caution led to another late-race restart at the Go Bowling at The Glen race earlier this month. And as it typically does, the result was chaos for NASCAR Cup drivers as they fought for the same real estate, like William Byron and Brad Keselowski who came together, with the help of Joey Logano and put the race back into yet another full-course caution. The chain of events ended with Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet launching into Keselowski’s — with the front end jammed into the rear quarter window of Keselowski’s No. 6 RFK Racing Ford.
The whole thing looked fairly alarming at a glance, especially as this type of incident is quite unusual for road courses. To happen, it relied on Byron’s car to have just the right approach angle, with Keselowski turned at also the perfect angle, to end with Byron’s car launching up into the rear quarter panel of the No. 6 so that his helmet was just inches away from Byron’s splitter and tire. And just seconds later, both were able to drive away without issue. But that wouldn’t have been the case had it not been for an update made to the cars following another unrelated incident just the year before.
