A view of the Bowman Gray score board during practice for the Clash at Bowman Gray at Bowman Gray Stadium. Peter Casey-Imagn Images

Watch: Hometown favorite crashes out in Cook Out Clash Last Chance Qualifier

By Samuel Stubbs | Last updated Feb 2, 2025 7:48 PM ET

Burt Myers is a Bowman Gray Stadium legend, but his NASCAR Cup Series debut at the track ended prematurely.

Myers was running inside the top 10 in Sunday's Last Chance qualifier and needed to finish inside the top two in order to advance to the Cook Out Clash. Unfortunately, his race ended in a mess of mangled sheet metal.

The partial crowd at Bowman Gray was forced to watch as Myers' No. 50 Chevrolet was towed away, and his chances of making the Cook Out Clash were towed away with it.

Big damage for Burt Myers. pic.twitter.com/8YgCRHO74k
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 3, 2025

Myers is an 11-time Bowman Gray Stadium track champion and has won 97 total races at the track. Those numbers are rivaled — and barely bested — only by Tim Brown, who is driving the No. 15 car for Rick Ware Racing in the Clash.

"The experience has been awesome," Myers told Fox Sports. "I was trying to bide my time. We didn't have the car thought we needed to get the job done completely. There at the end, we were picking them off one at a time, and I think we gained four or five spots. I got shoved into the No. 47 and pushed him out. When I got under him, I don't know if he was upset about that or what ... I do know it was an orange car that ran into me."

Samuel Stubbs

Hailing from the same neck of the woods as NASCAR Hall of Famer Mark Martin, Samuel has been covering NASCAR for Yardbarker since February 2024. He has been a member of the National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) since October of 2024. When he’s not writing about racing, Samuel covers Arkansas Razorback basketball for Yardbarker

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