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NASCAR 75: One of a series of 75 stories that helped define the first three quarters of a century of NASCAR.

How Rusty Wallace’s Flying NASCAR Cup Car Saved Countless Lives Prior to the advent of roof flaps, rollover accidents threatened NASCAR's very existence. By Al Pearce RacingOneGetty Images In the early 1990s—after upwards of 15 rollovers in that era—NASCAR had a problem: when turned around at speed, its cars and trucks often became airborne. Driver Rusty Wallace, an NASCAR Hall of Famer, was involved in such crashes at Daytona Beach and Talladega in early 1993. Wallace's crashes that year, in part, led to development of roof flaps to help keep cars grounded in the event of a cr...