Granted, Denny Hamlin’s championship loss felt like a personal heartbreak for many fans and peers. However, the chills that the Phoenix finale brought out were different from those brought out during the wrecks throughout the season. Several multi-car crashes and unfortunate wall-pounding unfolded across 2025. Yet only five of them stood out as the most terrifying and bone-chilling.

Denny Hamlin’s Daytona 500 big one triggered a multi-car pileup

On the final lap of the Daytona 500, nicknamed the ‘Great American Race’, a few top drivers’ great ambitions fizzled out. Denny Hamlin, Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe, Cole Custer, and Corey LaJoie were close to grasping the Harley J. Earl trophy. The real mess started when Custer came down the track after being hung out three-wide, colliding with

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