Watch A NASCAR Driver Wreck An Infield Station Wagon At The 1981 Daytona 500

The 1981 Daytona 500 has plenty of reasons to go down in history. It was Richard Petty’s last of seven Daytona 500 wins, marking a successful end to a career that had started to wane. It was the first outing for the “downsized” Cup Series cars. It also resulted in one of the wildest crashes the sport has ever seen when Geoff Bodine spun out into the infield and took out someone’s poor station wagon.

My YouTube algorithm is almost exclusively made up of videos of cats, historical recipes, and old motorsport clips; I really only use the site when I’m hoping to unwind. But when I checked in this morning, the algorithm had unearthed something exceptional: A clip of Bodine’s absurd crash from channel NASCARWrecks.