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The unseen ending to Waters’ NASCAR debut

Cameron Waters

By Andrew Clarke

Date posted: June 11, 2024

Everyone saw the multi car pileup that Cameron Waters was caught up in, but that is not what ended his NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma.

Waters battled from the back foot from the start, with the Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing team missing the mark with all three cars – Brad Keselowski, Chris Buescher and Waters – on Friday, but progressively improving over the weekend before he was crashed out of the race. 

Waters was involved in two incidents, the first when sitting just outside the top 10 when a dive bomb by an out-of-control Josh Berry cleaned up seven cars, and then the one that finished his race, unsighted by the TV.  

“This was my first event in a Cup Car and at a different track to where I have been and there was always going to be a learning element to everything,” he told AUTO ACTION from San Francisco airport on his way home.

“I had good people on my car, my spotter and crew chief were great, and they just tried to keep me up to date with all the information and what I needed to do and the rules and all the things like that, which I had to learn. 

“They really helped keep us out of trouble and it was all going well until we got caught up in someone else’s accident.

“The spotter can help you with things that are in front of you, but they can’t really see things like that when they are happening.

“Someone got in my rear and turned me right into the wall – I got some more right front damage on top of what I already had.

“I think it must have bent the lower arm and after that, the car was done. It was already wounded.”

Photo by John K Harrelson / NKP / LAT Images

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