{"id":598713,"date":"2026-04-12T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598713\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T08:02:20","slug":"bristol-nascar-race-red-flagged-for-major-engine-fire-for-mason-maggio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/598713\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol NASCAR Race Red Flagged for Major Engine Fire for Mason Maggio"},"content":{"rendered":"

On lap 194 near the start of Stage Three of Saturday\u2019s NASCAR O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Auto Parts Series Bristol Race, the engine of Mason Maggio\u2019s No. 91 Chevrolet Camaro expired, leading to a large engine fire.<\/p>\n

Maggio was helped from the car by the infield safety crews without injury, but the failed engine brought out a red flag as the Coliseum around the half-mile track was engulfed with smoke, and fuel was spilled on the track.<\/p>\n

Maggio was involved in a lap-one incident and was running off the lead lap at the time of the engine failure. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m all good,” Maggio told The CW Sports. “I knew there was going to be a lot of sparks under the lights here at Bristol, I just didn\u2019t expect my car to be the one that imitates.”<\/p>\n

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Mason Maggio made his way off the race track following his blown engine.<\/p>\n

Maggio went on to assure his mother, watching at home, that he was okay after the fire.<\/p>\n

“For all the family at home, for mom, I\u2019m good,” Maggio said to the camera.<\/p>\n

This was Maggio’s fifth start of the season and third DNF. The Mario Gosselin driver crashed on this year’s opening lap of the season opener at Daytona and had an engine failure at Atlanta the following week.
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The race resumed with Kyle Larson leading over last week\u2019s race winner, William Sawalich. Larson swept the stages, mirroring his performance in last year\u2019s April race, which he went on to win.<\/p>\n

Connor Zilisch would go on to win his first O’Reilly’s race since becoming a full-time Cup Series driver earlier this year, holding off Larson on older tires and battling with Brent Crews.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Beaver is a nomadic sports writer who spends her time hopping between race tracks and hippie farms. She\u2019s covered every corner of motorsports that will let her in from 410 Sprints to NASCAR to Supercross. Her daily driver is a 2010 Subaru that she refused to do the smallest amount of preventative maintenance on. Instead, she spends her free time and money building a 42-foot Skoolie to one day travel the country full time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On lap 194 near the start of Stage Three of Saturday\u2019s NASCAR O\u2019Reilly\u2019s Auto Parts Series Bristol Race,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,183855,782,226950,784,1642,634,226949,82],"class_list":["post-598713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-collection-motorsport","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-76d2e55b-6be4-4f55-8e92-64821d2d5853","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-bristol-oreillys-race-red-flag-for-engine-fire","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598713","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=598713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}