NASCAR loves a good “you won’t believe this” story. Cars flipping into fences, fake debris cautions, entire races decided by radio chatter that sounded way too convenient. But sometimes the sport throws something so random at you that even the wildest conspiracy feels tame.

Back in 2012, Danica Patrick was about to grab her first (and what would have been only) NASCAR national series win when a fan decided the track needed a shoe. One shoe. And just like that, victory turned into one of the funniest heartbreak moments ever caught on camera.

The day a random shoe took Patrick out

It was the Nationwide Series race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal in 2012. Danica Patrick had the car dialed in all weekend. She’d been strong on road courses, came painfully close at Road America a f

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