[Spridgets] The perils of racing
WFO Herb
froggi60 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 6 19:25:08 MDT 2009
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> Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brad Coleman was testing a Gibbs NASCAR Sprint Cup
> Series car at Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds earlier this week and came
> onto the radio and told his crew something rather unusual.
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> "Guys, I hit a coyote," Coleman said.
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> Coleman was running close to 200 mph around the 10-mile test track when he
> saw the animal wander under the outside guardrail.
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> "I'm in the middle of the corner, and I'm doing like 190," Coleman said
> Friday at Nashville Superspeedway before practicing his Nationwide Series
> car. "I'm just cruising. You run the high line there, because that's where
> the most banking is. It's the high-speed lane. There's just a guardrail
> there like on the freeway.
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> "I see this thing, it must've been 100 feet in front of me, just jump out.
> Right when I saw it come out from under the guardrail, I was like, 'That's
> a coyote.'"
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> "It just started smoking like crazy," Coleman said. "And it smelled
> terrible. I didn't see anything in the mirror, so I was like, 'I wonder
> where it went?' I said, 'Guys, I hit a coyote. I'm going to come in
> because I think it screwed up the radiator. I think it clogged up the
> grille a little bit.'"
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