WOW! What a wreck at the ARCA race in Talladega. Austin Wayne Self went sideways, Brad Smith hit him as he came around and then the car well full speed into the inside wall, bounced off and went flaming down the track.
Self is out of the car and into the ambulance. Smith wound up with the driver’s side against the inside wall in the grass, which put out the fire. It appears they’re going to try to winch the car away from the wall to get him out. You can see the trail of fluids from Smith’s wreck. Smith hit Self, bounced into the outside wall, headed for the inside wall, bounced off the inside wall, headed back onto the track, drove back down across the grass and came to rest against the inside wall. The car went up the in the air when he hit Self’s car. Brad Smith is sitting on the door of the car. They still have the winch rope out. Brad walked over to the stretcher. He’s sitting up and waving as they carry the stretcher over to the ambulance.
We restart on lap 61 of76.
Brad Smith has been taken to a local hospital.
Wreck with 10 to go as Grant Enfinger, championship leader, hits the wall, then is hit by Clay Campbell and Will Kimmel. Clay Campbell is headed to the ambulance, walking. Grant Enfinger walks toward the ambulance. Grant said on the radio, “That one hurt pretty bad, and I don’t just mean in the points.”
Frank Kimmell got into the left quarter panel of Grant which set him into the outside wall, and since Grant was beside Will, who was behind Frank, Grant got into Will sending him spinning. Clay Campbell then slammed into Will, apparently guessing wrong when trying to figure out where Will was going to end up when he stopped spinning.
The red flag is out with 8 to go and the cars are sitting on pit road.
They have a gorgeous shot of a big full moon.
There will be three laps remaining when the green flag falls again. They did five under caution.
Bobby Gerhart came down pit road at speed. Caution is out for a spin by Josh Williams at the start-finish line. Scott Sheldon was trying to bump draft with Josh Williams and got him turned around. Tom Hessert took the white flag, so it will be a one lap shoot-out.
Tom Hessert is out of gas on the restart and running under the yellow line. He’s now back up to speed.
Blake Jones wins on lap 79 of 76. Hessert ends up finishing 15.