Top Ten Most Important NASCAR Crashes Of All Time

Our friends at Popular Mechanics have put together a list of what they consider the top ten most influential crashes in NASCAR history, complete with video. These ten smash-ups were influential not in how they changed the course of a single race, but in how they got us to today's "Car of Tomorrow," a race car that is to "stock car" what the Republican Party is to "conservatives." That is to say, it's become nothing at all like a real for-sale car, and therefore not-at-all interesting to most hardcore gearheads. But maybe we all just need a reminder of how the "sport" got to be where it is today. Popular Mechanics has put together this list, with video clips, of ten big wrecks that provoked change in NASCAR. More »