WATCH: The big wreck in Can-Am Duel #2
Kurt Busch‘s No. 41 Stewart-Haas Racing Chevrolet was caught up in a wreck at the end of the second Can-Am Duel race on Thursday, but the team elected not to go to a backup car.
Instead, crew chief Tony Gibson and his crew dug in and made a day’s worth of repairs Friday once the garage opened. Wrapping the car proved time consuming, and help came from an expected place: Joe Gibbs Racing.
Competitors on track but we are all a family in the garage.Tks @JoeGibbsRacing for the help getting our car wrapped pic.twitter.com/WVqok7Ajyf
— Tony Gibson (@TonyOldman41) February 19, 2016
“We are all a family in the garage,” Gibson explained in his Twitter post.
Busch will start eighth in Sunday’s Daytona 500 (1 p.m. ET, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) — going to a backup car would have sent him to the rear of the field.
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