It didn't take long for the carnage to start during Sunday afternoon's Best Buy 400 at the Monster Mile. Unfortunately for Best Buy, Elliott Salder's No. 19 Best Buy Dodge was the cause.

Racing three wide early just 16-laps into the 400-lap event, Sadler made a move under Sam Hornish Jr. Doing so, the No. 19 came down across the nose of Yates Racing's David Gilliland. The two made contact, sending Sadler hard into the Turn 2 wall.

Sliding across the track in front of the field, Sadler was a sitting duck. Tony Stewart hit the brakes, but there was little he could do. The No. 20 Home Depot Toyota made hard contact with Sadler and further blocked the track.

More cars piled in, as the backstretch quickly became a parking lot. In all eleven cars were tore up including: Sadler, Stewart, Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Scott Riggs, Bobby Labonte, Bill Elliott, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne and Paul Menard.

"We made it three wide," Sadler said during the Red Flag, "and I think [Gilliland] just got into the back of me a little bit. All of the sudden I got loose."

Stewart sarcastically explained, "I take 100% responsibility - it's my fault for being even anywhere close to Elliott. If I'm within half a lap of him, expect that to happen. It's my fault - I'm the one that hit him. When I hit him, it caused all the guys behind us to wreck. So it's my fault."

As cars wooed up, Denny Hamlin's No. 11 FedEx Kinko's Toyota screamed around the corner, piling into Sadler, Kahne and bringing more cars into the incident.

"I feel bad for Elliott," Hamlin said. "I came piling in there way late. I had the 43 [Labonte] right on my bumper trying not to get hit from him. When I heard "wreck off turn two" I immediately was on the brakes. It's just these cars don't stop as well as they had in the past."

Stewart and Riggs came back on track with replacement hoods and noses on their mangled machines, while Harvick's No. 29 looked more like a modified than anything else. Despite having eleven cars involved in the wreck, only Hamlin and Sadler were officially retired from the event.