Zane Smith has emerged from the No. 38 SpeedyCash.com Ford Mustang Dark Horse after a scary incident during NASCAR Overtime at Kansas Speedway.
Smith was running inside the top-15 at the time of the incident, when contact from John Hunter Nemechek pinned him up against the outside SAFER Barrier in Turn 3. The car eventually turned onto the driver’s side and slid alongside the outside wall, before coming off the wall and rolling down the banking before coming to rest on its wheels.
Zane Smith exited the vehicle under his own power after this incident late at @kansasspeedway. pic.twitter.com/vbF4OXvROl
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While Nemechek, the driver who initiated the contact that triggered this odd-looking incident, was trying to avoid the No. 38, the LEGACY MOTOR CLUB driver came down the track and clipped both Ty Gibbs and Josh Berry, causing significant damage to both of those entries, as well.
Nemechek and Berry both took substantial impacts to the outside wall after sliding up the racetrack, thus ending their afternoons. Ty Gibbs, however, was able to avoid getting a ton of damage, just skimming the outside wall with his Saia LTL Freight Toyota Camry XSE.
After exiting the infield care center, Smith was not pleased with the way he was raced by John Hunter Nemechek, saying that the No. 42 drove through him.
“It was a wild ride, no doubt. Before I knew it, I had a decent restart going, and I just get wrecked by [Nemechek],” Smith said. “He just drives through me, and then I was sliding on the wall. I was just mad at that point from how our day was going, and this just pissed me off even more because that’s what really hurt was just flipping down the track. It was violent, no doubt, but we had such a fast Speedy Cash Ford today. It’s just a bummer.”
Compounding Smith’s frustrations was the fact that he felt like he was going to walk out of Kansas Speedway with his fifth top-10 finish of the season. Instead, he left the race on the hook of a tow truck.
“Right before that caution came out, we were gonna have a top 10 day, racing up inside the top 10 a majority of the day, and it’s a shame that it has to come to an end out there,” Smith stated. “I want to give a shout-out back to everyone at FRM for bringing another really good car, especially at a mile-and-a-half. Hopefully, five more. Hopefully, we bring some more good ones.”
