The Big One

Death, taxes and The Big One at Talladega Superspeedway --- they’re all guarantees. And on lap 68 in the Amp Energy 500, the latter came on Sunday.
It all started when Brian Vickers blew a right front tire. Vickers then collected Martin Truex Jr., sending him spinning and collecting cars all along the way.
“It’s frustration certainly, we had a great car,” Truex said. “I was having a lot of fun running up front drafting with Junior.
“The 83 car was right beside me and I heard bam, like a shotgun going off…. I’m going to have a bit of a headache tonight.”
Vickers said the situation that happened to him was much like what happened to Earnhardt in practice on Friday when he also blew a tire and wrecked.
“A bomb exploded in my right front tire,” he said. “It didn’t go down, it didn’t cut.”
All total, nine cars were involved, and the race was stopped to clean debris off the race track. Vickers, Truex, David Gilliland and Tony Raines were all treated and released from the infield car center.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was leading the race when the wreck happened.