NASCAR executive reveals that Christopher Bell's Michigan crash was hardest impact in a decade

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One of the big stories coming out of Sunday's race at Michigan International Speedway didn't have to do with race-winner Denny Hamlin; it had to do with a massive crash involving Hamlin's Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell.

Hendrick Motorsports' Chase Elliott lost control of his No. 9 Chevrolet, and it went careening up the track between Turns 3 and 4 into Bell.

That sent Bell's No. 20 hard into the SAFER barrier.

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That was a massively consequential wreck for a few reasons. First and foremost, it left Bell, who was fortunately able to climb out of his car, with a broken wrist, though he has been cleared to race this weekend at Pocono.

Additionally, it dropped him three places in the standings down to 10th.

Christopher Bell's crash at Michigan International Speedway was the hardest hit the Next Gen car has ever taken and was the biggest impact in at least a decade. (Photo by Brett Farmer/Getty Images))

But it turns out that the impact wasn't just big; a NASCAR executive says it was the biggest hit the Next Gen car — introduced in 2022 — has ever seen, and it's also the hardest impact in a decade.

According to Motorsport, NASCAR communications executive Mike Forde was on the official "NASCAR Hauler Talk" podcast when he revealed that the hit was the hardest a Next Gen car had ever taken.

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He said that this was determined using a measurement known as Delta-v.

"Delta-v is the measure of speed lost in an incident," he explained. "So if you’re going 200 mph and then all of a sudden you come to a