NASCAR has confirmed its R&D team will examine the No. 60 RFK Racing Ford Mustang after the car flipped in last weekend's Daytona 500.
"The RFK shop is right across the street from us so we'll send our folks over there this morning to start looking through that, working closely with Ryan and the team and the folks at RFK to see what we can learn," Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vice president of competition, said during a Tuesday appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
"And then we will, if there (are) things that come out of that that we can implement going forward as we've done in the past, we will continue to do that."
The incident took place in the closing laps of the Daytona 500. A wreck further up in the pack sent Christopher Bell's No. 20 Toyota backward and into Preece's No. 60 Ford, lifting the front of it off the ground.
The Ford began to turn to the side and then the wind lifted it up. The car flipped upside down, landed on the roof, slid for several feet, and then flipped upright before slamming into the outside wall. The car continued to bounce before landing on all four tires.
"It's something that we will continue to work on and we have been," Sawyer said about the crash. "And the team at the back -- Dr. (Eric) Jacuzzi and his team -- will continue to dissect exactly what happened.
"On the eye test for all of us, looking at the replay, when Ryan, basically got up on the side of the 20 car and once the front of the car is up in the air, obviously we're getting into a situation there.
"The front stayed up for a while, but once the car started to turn, the air started to see the side of it. I'm not an aerodynamicist -- I don't claim to be -- but I know the guys in the back will dissect that."
Preece was able to walk away from the crash at Daytona, which served as a testament to the safety advancements. However, he delivered a blunt message after exiting the infield care center.
Preece said he was lucky to walk away from the incident and that he didn't want to be an example when a major crash "does get somebody."
The RFK Racing driver has been involved in multiple big crashes on superspeedways in the Gen 7 era. He has flipped twice at Daytona, and he t-boned Kyle Larson at more than 130 mph at Talladega.
NASCAR made safety updates to the Gen 7 cars after the Talladega crash, and it paved a section of Daytona after the first flip. The sanctioning body also mandated rear air deflectors after Corey LaJoie flipped at Michigan last season.
Now that the sanctioning body is examining another destroyed car, it's possible that more safety changes could be in the future as it aims to keep cars on the ground.