What does the ‘Big One’ feel like? Let Matt Tifft’s car show you

Ever wonder just what it feels like to be a part of the “Big One” in the Daytona 500?

Well, so you don’t have to experience it, we have some photos that show just how hard the impact can be at Daytona International Speedway.

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Thanks to eagle-eye Twitter user @malikkoonce77, we can see that Matt Tifft’s No. 36 Ford wrecked so forcefully in the “Big One” that someone’s tail lights were embedded in the front of his car.

Let that sink in — just like those three horizontal red lights are in Tifft’s car. The lights transferred from one car to another because they collided at such a great force.

Kevin Harvick’s crew chief Rodney Childers was the one who realized what the photo showed on Twitter.

That’s someone’s Mustang tail lights.. https://t.co/FXpKNomWnw

— Rodney Childers (@RodneyChilders4) February 19, 2019

And Tifft the admitted he brought back a little present from his first Daytona 500.

Brought back a souvenir https://t.co/uz9bm0W6Pv

— Matt Tifft (@matt_tifft) February 19, 2019

But it took another Twitter user to discover just whose tail lights those were …

Here I circled it in red… pic.twitter.com/xjATANhInL

— NASCARIndycar48 (@NASCARIndycar48) February 19, 2019

Looks like Tifft will be sending that thank you note to Paul Menard.

See the crash in the video above — and the two cars colliding at about the 1:37 mark.

 

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