Myatt Snider walks away from frightening crash at end of Daytona NASCAR race

Tom Gatto

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Myatt Snider walks away from frightening crash at end of Daytona NASCAR race image

Myatt Snider was able to limp away from his race car after a violent crash on the last lap of Saturday's Beef. It's What's for Dinner. 300 NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

Snider wrecked as the field was racing down the backstretch after exiting Turn 2. His car was hit in the back by Anthony Alfredo's car, made a hard right turn, slammed into the SAFER barrier, went airborne upside down and then slammed into the catch fence before landing back on the track. The front and rear ends were torn off, and the engine was ejected from the Next Gen machine.

The full-speed video shows how violent the crash was:

Despite all that, Snider appeared to suffer just a left leg injury.

"It's the last lap, and everybody's trying their best to push as hard possible," Snider told a group reporters after visiting Daytona's infield care center.

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"It was violent," he said. "I saw sparks kind of going everywhere. You don't really know what's going on. You just kind of know you're going some direction, and it's not the right one. I was just kind of holding on, kind of hunched over, keeping everything together as much as I could.

"I can't profess enough how glad I am that I'm all good."

The crash occurred in front of a group of spectators that included Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace and 23XI Racing team owner Michael Jordan.

Crews worked Saturday night to repair the fence in time for the Daytona 500 on Sunday (3:06 p.m. ET green flag; Fox, TSN, MRN).

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.