Ryan Newman sent to hospital after Daytona 500 crash

all right a potentially jubilant celebration for Virginia's own Denny Hamlin tempered tonight by the last lap wreck which

sent

fellow driver

Ryan

Newman

to the

hospital

with what we now know as serious but non-life-threatening injuries here's your entire race recap 62nd annual

Daytona

500 from the birthplace of speed looking at it from above Southwest Virginia takes an early gut-punch as Liberty student William Byron in the Hendrick 24 car out early sliding into the infield grass hitting

the inside retaining wall his team's day is over chase Elliott Denny Hamlin win the first two stages two big wrecks as this one winds down 17 laps to go the 22 of Joey Logano shoves aric amirola into the two-car Brad Keselowski 19 cars involved two to go another caution and Ross Chastain and

Ryan

Preece get together Chastain up the track collecting Logan and a whole lot more yeah this one would go overtime green white checkered your leader Denny Hamlin is gonna be caught by

Ryan

Blaney and

you see Blaney pushes

Ryan

Newman

to the lead there you see

Newman

taking lead then Hamlin gives Blaney a push and

Newman

tries to block him multiple times the contact turns

Newman

into the outside wall and tumbling down the track while Hamlin and Blaney are nose to nose for the win it's Hamlin that gets the victory only the fourth driver to ever went back-to-back 500s balla all of that tempered by

Ryan

Newman

's condition here's Gibbs and Hamlin speaking on faith

after

the race just

say it's it's a time that we're all searching deep and praying and we're all praying for the right outcome it's a it's a weird balance of you know excitement and happiness for yourself but obviously someone's health and their families you know bigger than any win and in any sport so you know we're just hoping for the best and Hamlin taking a lot of heat on social media for celebrating tonight Joe Gibbs apologized saying his team wasn't aware of what was going

on certainly not the severity of the situation until Danny actually headed into victory lane when he was let obviously informed at that point there's your top five Kevin Harvick checking in fifth he is also tough on super speedways