[Spridgets] The perils of racing

David Booker tncarnut1 at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 6 20:29:05 MDT 2009


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 - David Booker
Long Island

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, WFO Herb <froggi60 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: WFO Herb <froggi60 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Spridgets] The perils of racing
To: "Spridgeteers" <spridgets at autox.team.net>, "Wedge List"
<tr8 at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>, "Ed's Spridgeteers" <9issa at justbrits.com>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 8:25 PM


This is a mess





Check this out!




> READ FIRST
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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.
>
> "Guys, I hit a coyote," Coleman said.
>
> Coleman was running close to 200 mph around the 10-mile test track when he

> saw the animal wander under the outside guardrail.
>
> "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.'"
>
> "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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