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An IndyCar NXT race on Sunday at Mid-Ohio was the scene of a horrific crash between Ricardo Escotto and Sebastian Murray.
Escotto and Murray were racing into Turn 4 on Lap 4 when Escotto’s right front wheel touched Murray’s left rear wheel. Murray spun around in front of Escotto and hit the wall at a terrifying rate of speed. Murray’s vehicle did a backflip before coming to a stop.
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Corner worker shows a red flag to the drivers at the NTT IndyCar series Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey on June 21, 2024, at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, in Salinas, California. (Larry Placido/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
IndyCar NXT officials waved the red flag to pause the race. Both Andretti drivers appeared to be OK after getting checked out at the infield care center.
“It was super unfortunate. I’m not really sure what happened,” Murray said afterward. “I’m just glad that everyone’s OK. Obviously, apologies to the team. It’s been a good weekend so far and we were hoping to make our way up but things happen. We’ll move forward.”
Escotto was not pleased with Murray and called the crash a “very scary one.”
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Ricardo Escotto races into turn five during the IndyNXT Series presented by Firestone Grand Prix on June 22, 2025, at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. (Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“Just frustrated and very angry. It took me a lot to be contained and try to calm me down,” he said. “It was a very unfortunate incident, especially having my teammate beside me. It’s bad we were in this situation because, at the end of the day, we shouldn’t be racing like that. We were on the straight and he moved and obviously made contact like that.
“Our racing is very close, very close margins, and if you make a mistake like that, it just comes to this.”
Dennis Hauger won the race, the fifth of the season.
Murray is 10th and Escotto is 13th in the IndyCar NXT standings.
Sebastian Murray drives during qualifying for the NXT INDYCAR Firestone Grand Prix on March 1, 2025, in St. Petersburg, Florida. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images)
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IndyCar NXT is the developmental series for drivers hoping to race IndyCar one day.
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