KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Zane Smith was uninjured in a wild ride as his car slid on its side along the Kansas Speedway backstretch wall before flipping twice and landing on its wheels.
John Hunter Nemechek had contact with Smith and as Smith hit the wall, his car turned on its side. The wreck came in the first two-lap overtime restart, where wrecks sometimes happen as drivers dig for their final finishing position.
“It was a wild ride, no doubt,” Smith said. “Before I knew it, I had a decent restart going and I just get wrecked by [Nemechek]. He simply drives via me, after which I used to be sliding on the wall.
“I used to be simply mad at that time from how our day was going and this simply pissed me off much more as a result of that’s what actually harm was simply flipping down the observe. It was violent, little doubt.”
The race was halted for about 9 minutes so NASCAR’s security workforce may be sure that Smith was OK and to verify the wall and fencing. There was a small gouge within the observe from the place Smith’s roof hit through the flip, however there was no injury to the fence.
Zane Smith went for a wild journey at Kansas Speedway.
After the race, NASCAR officers and Entrance Row Motorsports crew members have been wanting on the automotive. NASCAR will let the workforce take the automotive again to its store however then probably will ship some engineers to take one other look to verify all the things held up because it ought to have (and appeared that it did).
“It’s only a bummer,” Smith stated. “Proper earlier than that warning got here out, we have been going to have a top-10 day, racing up inside the highest 10 a majority of the day, and it’s a disgrace that it has to come back to an finish on the market.
“I need to give a shout-out again to everybody at FRM for bringing one other actually good automotive, particularly at a mile-and-a-half.”
The 26-year-old Smith, in his second yr of Cup racing, is twenty seventh within the sequence standings.
Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent many years overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Comply with him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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