Bowman wrecked out in a multi-car pileup on Lap 27, one which claimed the cars of Bubba Wallace, Austin Cindric and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., among others. He struck the outside wall near the frontstretch tri-oval, came to a halt along the backstretch, and was towed into the garage area. The damage proved to great to repair, and Bowman finished 36th.

Alex Bowman spent nearly three hours waiting out his fate in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, doomed to a DNF at Daytona International Speedway after a multicar Stage 1 wreck. He watched the rest of the Coke Zero Sugar 400 from the track as a host of drivers bidding for their

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Tyler Reddick crashed early in NASCAR's regular-season finale Saturday night and still clinched a spot in the playoffs. How? Just nine laps later, Alex Bowman wrecked at Daytona International Speedway and, with Bowman out of the race, it automatically locked Reddick into the 16-driver field.