NASCAR red flagged the race and stopped the cars on the track while they cleaned up the mess at the pit road entrance. And they also had to swap pace cars after the original one was damaged in the incident. Yes, there’s a backup pace car. The pace car just CRASHED into the sand barrels at the entrance of pit road!

The race was then red-flagged to fix the sand barrels, which are placed at the start of the pit row for potential moments like this. Elliott appears unaffected by the move as he r