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Ryan Newman's racing team announced that he wants to return to racing as soon as he can but there is no timetable for that yet.

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman has been released from the hospital just days after he was injured during a last-lap crash at the Daytona 500.

Police said the death remains under investigation.

Newman was leading in the final lap when he was caught in the back by another racer's bumper, sending him right into a wall. His car flipped, rolled, and was hit on the driver's side by another car before finally skidding across the finish line with his roof engulfed in flames.

Ryan Newman slid across the finish line in a crumpled heap of metal, sparks flying as his car skidded to a halt with fuel pouring onto the track frighteningly close to open flames.  Everyone gasped as track workers placed large black screens around his car and worked to get him out. They had to wait two excruciating hours to finally exhale.

President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale reportedly tweeted, then deleted a 2004 picture of Air Force One at Daytona 500 appearing to claim it was the president’s plane at the race held on Sunday.

The Daytona 500 had to be rescheduled due to rain on Sunday for the first time since 2012, dampening NASCAR's season opener that started with a ballyhooed visit from President Donald Trump.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump addressed the 100,000-seat racetrack at Florida’s Daytona International Speedway ahead of the race he called "pure American glory."  

Trump is reportedly planning to take a lap in the presidential car known as "The Beast."

Pre-race coverage begins at 1 p.m. Sunday on FOX 35 followed by the race at 2:30 p.m.

Trump has hosted previous NASCAR champions at the White House and last October awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to motorsports titan Roger Penske.

The Daytona 500 kicks off on Sunday, Feb. 16.

John Andretti, a member of one of auto racing's most famous families and the first driver to attempt the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's 600-mile race in North Carolina on the same day, has died. He was 56 and had spent the last three years battling colon cancer.