Hot! Juan Pablo Montoya Crashes Into Jet Dryer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Daytona 500 has been halted by a hot-headed explosion caused when Juan Pablo Montoya slammed right aircraft dryer under caution.

It's modern blunder to limit NASCAR's season-opening race.

Montoya ended up being operating very well powering others in the industry with the industry whenever some thing on his car broke, plus your dog going sliding off the road spinning out of control when it comes to the particular truck, that holds 200 gallons of plane kerosene.

Montoya's No. 42 Chevrolet hammered the truck, placing down an huge increase plus submitting supply pouring onto this famous track.

Montoya became out unharmed, though he appeared to stagger around the infield grass. The airport taxi driver from the 18 wheeler needed to be helped from the vehicle.

Dave Blaney was leading back then with the wreck, followed by Landon Cassill, Tony Raines and David Gilliland. All of them are comparative unknowns inside Sprint Cup Series.

The Daytona five hundred was postponed in excess of 30 hours as a result of rain, rescheduled as a primetime affair below your lights.

The wait followed 2 yrs after the five-hundred was halted pertaining to a long time due to a pesky pothole sequentially two. That one ruined the actual track much that will officials relocated upward a timetabled repaving on the track.

The explosion and also the ultimate removal from the truck appeared to damage the actual track, gouging traces directly into the pavement.