NASCAR Barometer: The Big One Strikes

Sunday's Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 saw its fair share of roadside assistance being needed by the field.

The afternoon produced plenty of restrictor-plate excitement, as only Talladega Superspeedway can. Drivers duked it out up front while others dropped back in hopes that survival would be the key to victory. As those strategies played out, plenty of drivers who had struggled took their share of the spotlight. Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya were just two names that found themselves in the mix.

Sunday's final laps saw nothing less than what a race at Talladega is expected to produce. There was close racing, four-wide, in the closing laps, and the final crash ...

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