{"id":218763,"date":"2025-10-17T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218763\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:44:08","slug":"can-you-win-a-nascar-race-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218763\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Win a NASCAR Race By ACCIDENT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes luck, timing, and a little bit of lightning can change everything. Back in 2019, a young Justin Haley found himself in the right place at the right time \u2014 and ended up winning a NASCAR Cup Series race without even leading a green-flag lap.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>What chaotic sequence of events turned Daytona into a game of weather roulette?<\/p>\n<p>How did 17 cars wrecking in one lap set up the ultimate underdog victory?<\/p>\n<p>Why did everyone else pit when Haley stayed out?<\/p>\n<p>And what role did lightning \u2014 literally \u2014 play in sealing the deal?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydownforce.com\/ads\/peanut-patch-push-down\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"200\" class=\"no-lazy-load wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/PP-Racing-110x200-Banner-Ad_040324.jpg\" decoding=\"async\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1100\" data-eio-rheight=\"200\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of the strangest, most unexpected wins in modern NASCAR history, and it all happened in a matter of minutes. A 20-year-old in his third start, a team that barely existed, and a storm that refused to quit \u2014 the perfect recipe for a once-in-a-lifetime upset.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Also<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes luck, timing, and a little bit of lightning can change everything. Back in 2019, a young Justin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-218763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}