A father-son duo escaped death Saturday after a pre-race stunt went wrong on the front stretch.
Nearly two hours prior to the start of the Bank of America 500, known daredevil Spanky Spangler drove around the 1.5 mile oval driving a beat up RV with, 'Hold my beer, watch this' spray-painted on one side.
Hot in pursuit was his son Bryan Spangler, driving a patrol car. A series of planned explosions went off just before the cars reached the jump. The bottom of Spangler's RV caught fire just as he went off the ramp, sending his RV nose-first into a pile of junk cars.
It took several minutes for rescue personnel to extricate the elder from the RV. He walked to an ambulance and was released from the infield care center.
Here's a link to Spanky's past antics.
http://tinyurl.com/24h24jp
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