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Re: [Spridgets] The perils of racing

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] The perils of racing
From: Dave Yealy <lbc@littlebitcountry.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:47:01 -0400
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At 09:25 PM 8/6/2009, you wrote:
>  This is a mess
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>Check this out!
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> > READ FIRST
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> > Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brad Coleman was testing a Gibbs NASCAR Sprint Cup
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> > Right when I saw it come out from under the guardrail, I was like, 'That's
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> > 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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