On a Lap 75 restart, William Byron crashed out of Sunday’s Brickyard 400 along with AJ Allmendinger.
After Chase Briscoe’s No. 14 Ford got tight exiting Turn 2, it stacked up those behind him, leading to a chain reaction. Ryan Preece was sandwiched between Byron and Harrison Burton, causing the latter two to make contact. Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet eventually spun out and hit Allmendinger’s No. 16 Chevy before slamming the inside retaining wall down the backstretch.
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“We got back there in traffic,” Byron said. “It seemed like the pit-stop sequence didn’t go our way there. The No. 14 (Chase Briscoe) was just being a squirrel back in the pack. He drove up in front of me. I had to lift way off the corner and I got run over.”
Byron, Allmendinger and Burton were evaluated and released from the infield care center.
The streak of the No. 24 winning every 10 years at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval since the inaugural Brickyard 400 in 1994 will end, and Byron will be scored with a 38th-place finish.
With his Hendrick teammate Kyle Larson winning the crown-jewel race and retaking control in the regular-season standings, Byron now moves to sixth in the fight for the Regular Season Championship, 97 points behind after being scored with a 38th-place finish.