Ryan Preece's crash Sunday was the latest in an uptick of cars flipping after wrecks and the second such incident for Preece in two years.

Ryan Preece has walked away after a spectacular crash during the closing laps of the 2025 Daytona 500, going airborne and flipping down the Daytona backstretch and up the banking in Turn 3. It all occurred after a multi-car crash that began when Christopher Bell got spun in front of traffic while racing for the win with four laps to go.

Ryan Preece, whose name has become almost synonymous with nerve-wracking wrecks at Daytona International Speedway, shared his horrifying experience after his most recent crash. On Sunday, Feb. 16, Preece,

Ryan Preece is calling on NASCAR to do more to prevent cars from becoming airborne during superspeedway races.

"We know where there’s a problem, at superspeedways. … When it finally gets somebody, I don’t want it to be me."

With four laps left, Preece turned upside-down and essentially did a wheelie in his No. 60 Ford. His car flipped onto its roof and turned back onto its tires before hitting the outside wall. Preece dropped his safety net to signal to crews he was OK. He finished 32nd.

For the second time in two years, Ryan Preece went airborne in a terrifying crash on the backstretch at Daytona International Speedway. Preece, who was making his Daytona 500 debut with Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing,

Preece was referring to the wreck he endured on Sunday at Daytona International Speedway: the one where he was knocked in the side by an out-of-control Christopher Bell, into Erik Jones, and up into the air at 190-plus miles per hour — floating and flipping upside down until he crashed into the wall, almost into the fence.

Since then, Josh Berry flipped and slid upside down into the inside wall in last year’s summer race. In the 2025 Daytona 500, Preece ramped off Christopher Bell’s mangled car and wheelied for several hundred feet before finally blowing over. Preece slide upside down up the Turn 3 banking, into the outside wall, before barreling down onto the apron.