VIDEO: ESPN botches NASCAR Nationwide Series at Chicago ending — TWICE

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Tonight’s Nascar Nationwide Series at Chicago race had an exciting ending in which the first two placing cars both ran out of gas on the last lap:

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Which would be fine except the car they thought was Trevor Bayne was actually a car that wasn’t even on the lead lap. It’s an easy mistake to make, I mean, BOTH CARS ARE WHITE!

As if this wasn’t bad enough, the mistake was repeated ten minutes later on SportsCenter:

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Really, truly unbelievable. It’s not like Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500 earlier this year or anyt– OH WAIT HE WON THE DAYTONA 500 EARLIER THIS YEAR.

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