From the Daytona Beach News-Journal:
Preseason Thunder update: 12 cars involved in Turn 2 crash
By Ken Willis
SPORTS COLUMNIST
Published: Friday, January 11, 2013
2 P.M. UPDATE
The No. 9 of Marcos Ambrose was running second in a line of 18 cars when he was turned sideways, triggering a 12-car wreck that swept up the No. 88 Chevrolet of Dale Earnhardt Jr., exiting Turn 2 Friday during NASCAR Preseason Thunder testing at Daytona International Speedway.
Because the two were running near the front, there was a chain-reaction melee that gathered most of those cars on the track.
"Marcos (Ambrose), my teammate got hooked,'' Aric Almirola said. "It's part of this kind of racing. Maybe the bad luck's out of the way before we come back here before Speedweeks.''
Those drivers whose cars were severely damaged were Ambrose, Earnhardt, Jamie McMurray, Brad Keselowski, Kasey Kahne, Joey Logano, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Regan Smith, Martin Truex Jr., Jeff Gordon and Almirola.
NASCAR announced that McMurray and Ambrose were treated and released from the Infield Care Center.
"Sometime you've got to wreck them to learn,'' Brad Keselowski said. "It's unfortunate there's torn up cars.''
Trevor Bayne sat atop the drafting speeds with a lap of 199.650 mph in his No. 21 Wood Brothers Ford.
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