Replace 02/22: Publish-race interview added. Sam Mayer began Saturday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Collection race from pole place, however fell again after a flat tire pressured him onto pit highway.
He rallied again to complete seventh with a reasonably clear automotive, however it did not keep that approach. Mayer’s Haas teammate Sheldon Creed was victorious for the very first time in his 138th profession begin, and so he determined to go and congratulate him.
After that, he realized a second too late that he had missed the doorway to pit highway. Mayer shortly lower down, solely to start out mowing the garden within the infield grass. Resulting from showers earlier within the day, the grass was even much less pleasant than it usually could be to a 3,000+ pound race automotive. The splitter received torn off, and Mayer’s No. 41 automotive launched upward in a wheelie. It obliterated the entrance of the race automotive, as you may see under:
It is not extraordinary to see post-race incidents involving supportive teammates or overzealous race winners, as vehicles have spun out crisscrossing the monitor to congratulate successful teammates earlier than. Daniel Suarez at Nashville in 2023 is a latest incident that involves thoughts. Carl Edwards even ripped all the frontend off of his automotive whereas attempting to do burnouts within the infield grass after successful the 2011 All-Star Race.
As for Creed, he was fully unaware that the incident had even occurred after Mayer saluted him, and reacted to the video as soon as he lastly noticed it in the course of the winner’s press convention:
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