Daytona 500 Delayed: The Track Broke

The Daytona 500 is being delayed by a broken track.

Yep, you read that right: Part of the track came apart in Turn 2, and safety workers are currently repairing it with 78 laps remaining.

Good thing it’s not the biggest race of the year or anything.

Drivers are currently parked on pit road and sitting inside their cars. The delay, which officially began at 3:22 p.m. local time, isn’t expected to last too much longer.

The last broken track delay most people can recall was the Martinsville race in spring 2004. A piece of concrete came apart at the entrance to Turn 3 and damaged Jeff Gordon’s car that day.

Daytona hasn’t been repaved in decades. The track surface is old and bumpy, and it feels like airplane turbulence or a speedboat going through choppy water.

The hole looks like a shoeprint, but is fairly deep.