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This crash several weeks ago put me in a really rough mood for the next couple of days. There's still a fan hospitalized from the debris that went through the catch fence.

This started when there was contact between the two leading drivers coming to the checkered flag, last corner, last lap. Only Tony Stewart avoided the mayhem that followed -- every other car on the lead lap was either involved in the calamity that sent Kyle Larson's car into the catchfence, where the front end was sheared off by a closed access gate, and went flying into the seating area.

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Almost twenty people were hospitalized, all of whom were fans in the grandstands. All but one have been released by now, and the one that hasn't has been stable and recovering since Day One.

People don't seem to realize how dangerous racing is.