That was a MASSIVE shunt for Brennan Poole, who slammed into the stationary Sheldon Creed off Turn 4.
Poole and Creed are both done for the afternoon and out of their racecars.#NASCAR
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Sheldon Creed and Brennan Poole are out of Saturday’s SciAps 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway after a massive impact in the final laps of the race’s first stage.
The initial incident was between Sheldon Creed and Dean Thompson, when the NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie got into the left-rear of the Haas Factory Team driver in the middle of Turns 3 and 4, spinning out the No. 00 Ford Mustang Dark Horse.
Creed, who at first managed to spin his No. 00 Friends of Jaclyn Foundation Ford Mustang Dark Horse with no wall contact, spun to a stop in the racing line, as oncoming traffic was whizzing by.
Then, Brennan Poole, who was running inside the top-20 at the time of the incident, came rushing onto the scene, where he made significant contact with Creed, ripping the entire right side of Poole’s Alpha Prime Racing Chevrolet off with ease.
Both Creed (No. 00) and Poole (N0. 44) were able to climb from their cars without assistance from the medical center, but would retire from Saturday’s event at Bristol Motor Speedway, and would be left with finishes of 36th and 37th.
“I feel fine, it knocked the air out of me for a second,” said Sheldon Creed. “[Burton] was the lucky dog at the moment, and he was doing a really good job of holding onto that. I was just trying to play with things, I was fairly free, just trying to search.”
“[Dean Thompson] had gotten me a few times by then, and then just got me enough there.”
After a fourth-place finish at Martinsville Speedway, Poole was one of four drivers fighting for the $100,000 bonus as part of the Dash4Cash, an award that he won’t be winning come the checkered flag on Saturday.
“It did knock the breath out of me. I was talking to Sheldon [Creed], and it locked the breath out of him, too. You just hate it when you have cars come together that hard, it just sucks,” Poole said.
“That was a pretty hard hit, which I was kind of surprised by,” he added. “Like I said, I was back to the gas coming off the corner, like I couldn’t see the No. 00, my spotter said check up, I started checking up as soon as I saw him in my frame.”
The accident forced NASCAR to display a red flag for the accident, with an incredible amount of damage and debris littered across the racing surface.
