Ryan Newman Update

Lorain yesterday postponed the Daytona 500 to this afternoon. It was a slightly slower start to the race in terms of crashes and excitement, but as usual, several crashes occur late, including a very serious incident on the last lap. We have good news to report. We'll talk about that in a moment, but the race was pretty clean as we mentioned up to here, 17 laps to go, they always say it's not about if the big problem will happen at Daytona, but when this accident involved almost half of the field, including Michigan native Brad. Keselowski, who led 30 laps, stayed under a red flag for a while to clear the track and with two laps left he left another big accident in turn four and involved eight more cars after another red flag to clear.

Finally he would get back to the green flag but he crashes, unfortunately we haven't quite made it to the home stretch, it would be Denny Hamlin winning his third Daytona 500 and a tough finish to watch, Ryan Newman, who you see right there, ends up in his The roof has a scary, scary ending that has everyone worried tonight so much that Hamlin couldn't really celebrate his second straight 500 win. Yeah, I mean, I think sometimes we take for granted how safe cars are, but You know, number one, we were praying for Ryan. He works very well with Ryan throughout this entire run.

You know, it's great to have my girls here. It's great to have the team celebrating. You know, back to back. I can't even tell you what it means to date. Oh, in that interview, of course, it came moments later. race before many drivers knew the severity of Newman's accident, believe it or not, in fact, Denny Hamlin team owner Joe Gibbs apologized minutes later saying that they did not know the severity of the accident and that they were sending their prayers. All reports indicate that this was the case. Very somber in victory lane after that celebration and Newman was rushed to a local hospital arriving around 8:35 p.m.

We just received word a couple moments ago of a statement from NASCAR saying that he is being treated in Assyria in serious condition, but doctors have indicated that his injuries are not life-threatening at this time. The statement also says they will provide more information as it becomes available, we will be sure to keep you informed both on air and online.