NASCAR Fans React as Massive ARCA Crash at Talladega Sends a Car Airborne

NASCAR weekend at the Talladega Superspeedway has finally kicked off. The ARCA Menards Series has started the show, and it is safe to say that proceedings commenced with a bang. As is the usual case in stock car racing, there was a massive accident with multiple cars crashing out. The incident occurred with 28 laps to go, just as the pack raced across the front stretch.

Richard Garvie gets airborne during a huge ARCA crash at Talladega. pic.twitter.com/BYKuARfnso

— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) April 23, 2022

As it happened, the #10 car of Richard Garvie was sent airborne briefly, before gravity made itself known. Several other cars spun out, including the #7 of Eric Caudell. That was when Caudell received the scare of his life when the #69 of Scott Melton slammed into his car.

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The whole thing started when Garvie spun Toni Breidinger and that triggered the multi-car crash.

ARCA shouldn’t be anywhere near Talladega.

There, I said it. https://t.co/Uyz7Ov1h2i

— dmurway1 (@dmurway1) April 23, 2022

Need to be a bit more stringent on who gets to run these races. Glad Scott Melton is awake and alert, but very scary and preventable stuff here. #ARCA https://t.co/WSEGDDxV5T

— Jarrad Wakefield (@JPWMedia) April 23, 2022

tf is the 69 doing damn https://t.co/vUhmdOFieM

— ɿoxɒƨ⛧ (@roxsaicin) April 23, 2022

Holy ARCA brakes on the 69 car, wtf was that? https://t.co/HqMncT7fwt

— Alex// (@AlexD77_) April 23, 2022

Breidinger’s out-of-control car spun out the #03 car of Josh White as well. Meanwhile, the #7 of Caudell managed to avoid most of the wreck, but spun in the process. As he slid onto the track, the #69 of Melton speared into his car at high speed. After the incident on the track, Melton was taken to the hospital for a check-up.

Many NASCAR fans were horrified at the scene of the accident

Of course, many fans found the crash pretty scary and prayed that everyone came out unscathed. Meanwhile, there were some who noted that even though Melton was one of the victims, he did not slow down at all. A lot of them attributed it to the ARCA brakes being extremely poor.

ARCA: we don’t use breaks we just go full throttle into accidents https://t.co/qT0wCmloih

— Bobby Wallace (@Reiku78) April 23, 2022

Glad everyone is ok. That was https://t.co/ngPdssfCT4

— Stephanie Moyer (@Steph_Moyer) April 23, 2022

Hope Scott Melton is ok, but I have absolutely no idea what he was doing there. Why are you going through a fresh accident scene that quickly? Caution was out, buddy.#GeneralTire200 https://t.co/wXIcsZjmHS

— Sean Sedor (@SASedor2994) April 23, 2022

What the actual fuck was the 69 doing, Jesus Christ https://t.co/q7eO83weSg

— Derek Engel (@tebowmanning) April 23, 2022

As per the latest reports from Kimmel Racing, Melton is in stable condition. The driver was promptly rushed to a local Alabama hospital and diagnosed with a compound fracture in his left leg.

69 with major ARCA brakes https://t.co/wrUrnroQjU

— Collin Markle (@CollinMarkle_5) April 23, 2022

Every spring race we have this shit https://t.co/2bnlNFDSma

— Big Iron (@Traphouseracing) April 23, 2022

69 car with the #nice example of ARCA brakes at 28 seconds. My man forgot he wasn’t in @iRacing https://t.co/TH3BXoLkqz

— Clay (@maybeclayfoster) April 23, 2022

Someone take Scott Melton’s license. Jeez… https://t.co/ZFDHA5AWaX

— Isaac Donsky (@SGSM_Isaac) April 23, 2022

Nice to know ARCA brakes are still a thing https://t.co/AI6hC2wdFN

— Dakota (@g2wolf) April 23, 2022

Although the fans were sympathetic to the fact that it was a bad crash, they still felt that he was to blame. Others firmly believed that since the ARCA brakes were next to useless, Melton was helpless. One thing is for sure, we hope that he has a speedy recovery, and the other drivers are alright.

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