As I'm sitting here writing this, the 2012 Daytona 500 is just about start again after one of the strangest delays in auto racing history.Under a caution flag on the 160th lap, Juan Pablo Montoya's car suddenly spun out of control and slammed into the back of a safety truck. There was an explosion, and jet fuel immediately started leaking out of the safety truck. Naturally, that fuel went up in flames.The video of this incident will forever live in infamy.The race isn't even over yet, but already the consensus is that none of us has ever seen anything like the Montoya crash and the fire that ensued. It's totally unprecedented. I'm not about to argue that point. What I will say, however, is that the Montoya crash feels almost par for the cou...

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As I'm sitting here writing this, the 2012 Daytona 500 is just about start again after one of the strangest delays in auto racing history.Under a caution flag on the 160th lap, Juan Pablo Montoya's car suddenly spun out of control and slammed into the back of a safety truck. There was an explosion, and jet fuel immediately started leaking out of the safety truck. Naturally, that fuel went up in flames.The video of this incident will forever live in infamy.The race isn't even over yet, but already the consensus is that none of us has ever seen anything like the Montoya crash and the fire that ensued. It's totally unprecedented. I'm not about to argue that point. What I will say, however, is that the Montoya crash feels almost par for the cou...

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