{"id":30473,"date":"2025-02-18T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=30473"},"modified":"2025-02-17T23:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T04:31:15","slug":"ryan-preece-flips-again-why-nascar-cant-seem-to-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/02\/18\/ryan-preece-flips-again-why-nascar-cant-seem-to-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Preece Flips Again, Why NASCAR Can&#8217;t Seem to Get It Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what NASCAR does, something always goes wrong during the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/02\/16\/william-byron-nabs-second-straight-daytona-500-highlighted-by-rain-and-carnage\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> Daytona 500<\/a>. That was no different Sunday evening. With only a handful of laps to go, another big accident took out a lot of cars, but one driver in particular went for another ugly ride. Ryan Preece, who famously had a terrifying flip-over crash in 2023 at Daytona, caught air once again.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing seems to change, especially for Ryan. It certainly wasn&#8217;t a pleasant sight to see a car once again flip through the air like it&#8217;s a diecast car or something.<\/p>\n<h2>Ryan Preece Flips Again, Why NASCAR Can&#8217;t Seem to Get It Right<\/h2>\n<p>Racing in NASCAR has always had danger. But the way <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/08\/22\/nascar-flip-over-crashes-continue-to-evolve\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">these Gen-7 cars flip<\/a> is simply scary. They flip so easily, even after NASCAR has done a lot to try and prevent it. It&#8217;s so messed up how easily it happens. Preece&#8217;s flip in Sunday&#8217;s Daytona 500 was no different. It was crazy, the car was up on its rear wheels for at least several yards before it finally flipped.<\/p>\n<p>It happened so fast, it was hard to comprehend that it happened.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This view of Ryan Preece&#39;s car flipping. Goodness. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/o1dFgsUBuz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/o1dFgsUBuz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARONFOX\/status\/1891314501124812853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sure Preece didn&#8217;t have any major flips during the 2024 season, but if you go back to 2023, the summer Daytona race, he was involved in a vicious crash that won&#8217;t soon be forgotten. The bad flips in 2024 belong to Corey Lajoie who flipped twice last season. His flips were as wild and quick as a blow over as Preece&#8217;s have been.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/11\/19\/ryan-preece-and-kroger-will-join-rfk-racing-in-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Preece and Kroger will join RFK Racing in 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>NASCAR Might Need to Listen For Once<\/h3>\n<p>Preece made some comments that stood out after he was released from the care center. He most certainly called out the next-gen car in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the diffuser or what that makes this car like a sheet of plywood when you walk outside on a windy day,&#8221; Preece <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASCARONFOX\/status\/1891319955498402184\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said via the FOX broadcast<\/a>. &#8221; When the car took off and it got real quiet, all I thought about was my daughter. I was lucky to walk away, but we&#8217;re getting real close to somebody not being able to. It&#8217;s frustrating when you end your day like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RYAN PREECE POST CRASH INTERVIEW - 2025 DAYTONA 500 - 2025 NASCAR CUP SERIES\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wi1k5bgV9SM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that when air gets under these cars, they flip way too easily. Preece isn&#8217;t wrong. To me, NASCAR needs to heed what he said. I know a NASCAR driver hasn&#8217;t died in a crash since Dale Sr in 2001, but the sport is flirting with a very fine line. They don&#8217;t have a great track record of making changes quickly enough when it comes to the safety of a driver.<\/p>\n<h3>Is the name Ryan Cursed in NASCAR?<\/h3>\n<p>Not to be superstitious, but it certainly feels like drivers with the first name Ryan, have some bad energy around them when racing at tracks like Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/07\/18\/ryan-blaney-quickly-becoming-one-of-nascars-best-drivers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Ryan Blaney<\/a> in that conversation, but then again he seems to always get taken out of the Daytona 500 by his teammates in bad crashes.<\/p>\n<p>You can go back to Ryan Newman, who was involved in plenty of terrible crashes at both Daytona and Talladega. You&#8217;re talking about a guy who even won the Daytona 500 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Newman, Blaney, and Preece are all named Ryan, and they have been in some of the worst and scariest crashes in recent memory, specifically at Daytona. It might just be a coincidence, but drivers named Ryan have some bad luck at Daytona.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just happy Ryan Preece was able to once again walk away from such an ugly flip. But enough is enough NASCAR, get this thing fixed. We don&#8217;t need anyone getting hurt. Especially with how chaotic the racing is now.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Image Credit: IMAGO\/Icon Sportswire. 2\/16\/2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2025\/02\/16\/william-byron-nabs-second-straight-daytona-500-highlighted-by-rain-and-carnage\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">William Byron Nabs Second Straight Daytona 500, Highlighted by Rain and Carnage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what NASCAR does, something always goes wrong during the Daytona 500. That was no different Sunday evening. With only a handful of laps to go, another big accident took out a lot of cars, but one driver in particular went for another ugly ride. Ryan Preece, who famously had a terrifying flip-over crash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5169,"featured_media":30479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,1664],"tags":[2447,502,2311,1607,679],"class_list":["post-30473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-nascar","category-nascar-cup-series","tag-2447","tag-daytona-500","tag-flip-over","tag-roush-fenway-keselowski-racing","tag-ryan-preece"],"modified_by":"Hayden Murdock","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30481,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30473\/revisions\/30481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}