Better hope those tow-trucks get good gas mileage. Especially in today's America!

Eighteen cautions. Red flags everywhere. Cars spinning, flipping and rolling. 

Drivers left upside down in the cockpit on the frontstretch ... for what seemed like hours. 

What a "Daytona" 600 it was!

"I’m gonna be a bit sore tomorrow," Chris Buescher said after the safety crew finally got his No. 17 Ford back on all four wheels.

"I haven’t been upside-down in a really long time. The blood is rushing to your head a little bit. I guess I could have pulled the belts and fallen right to the ground, but figured I’d just wait on them.”

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I don't know if it was the new car, the restarts, or the fact that the field was constantly bunched up because of the wrecks, but this Coca-Cola 600 certainly had a different feel to it. 

Even the winner had to look up directions to Victory Lane!

"It's the last big one that's not on my resume," said Denny Hamlin, who zigged and zagged through the carnage to score his first Coke 600 win. "This is a big one. It's one of the three majors that we have in our sport and it's one that I haven't won. Just got ourselves in the right place at the right time"

Admittedly, Denny had no business winning this race. 

Ross Chastain probably had the dominant car of the night (or was it Chase? More on him later). Kyle Larson was fast and probably should've won. Daniel Suarez was really fast early, Chase Briscoe was really faster late, and Kyle Busch sort of just hung around the top five most of the night. 

But it was Denny who navigated Sunday's late pileup the best, weaving through the chaos caused by Austin Dillon's massive run — and massive block — to win for the second time this season. 

"I was going for it," said Austin Dillon (spoiler alert!). "I just got a little loose trying to make it stick and it didn't quite work out. Looking back, I wish I would have backed up the corner a little bit. I had to do what I had to do to win the race."

All right. Enough with the finish. Let's rewind a few hundred miles to the earlier drama, beginning with Chase Elliott's broken Chevy. 

Clyde led 86 laps and dominated the sunshine portion of the race, but blew a tire while passing Daniel Suarez, slammed the wall and never came back. 

Not long after that, the Big One (hey, that's not meant for Charlotte!) took out half the field when Ryan Blaney got loose, went for a spin in front of the pack, and took out several contenders. 

"I thought for a moment they were going to miss me ... there was no missing me," Blaney said. 

Know who else they didn't miss? Chris Buescher. Yeah, let's get back to him for a second. 

It's not often that you see cars flip ... and flip ... and flip some more at a track not named Daytona or Talladega. 

Buescher went spinning through the grass and evidently hit a hidden speed bump, because he shot up and over in a way you rarely see. 

Let's talk about the safety crew, too. Well, hang on. Brad, you go. 

"This is taking WAAAAYYYY TOOO long," Buescher's boss/teammate Brad Keselowski tweeted during the wreck. 

Buescher quickly dropped the window net after his Ford came to a halt on its roof, and the safety crew was on the scene seconds later. But then everyone just kinda stood around. 

OK, that's not what really happened. Looks can be deceiving, said Mike Forde, who works with the NASCAR Communications team. 

"Safety team was communicating with Buescher throughout," Forde tweeted. "Once confirmed that he was in good health, they were deliberate in the flip to ensure no further issues. After MANY practice runs, this was the first time flipping the new car. It took around 5 minutes."