{"id":189193,"date":"2025-10-04T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189193\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:47:19","slug":"nascar-driver-zane-smith-rides-wall-flips-in-bizarre-kansas-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189193\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver Zane Smith rides wall, flips in bizarre Kansas crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Kansas-crash-zane-smitgh.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Violent\u2019 rollover red-flags NASCAR race at Kansas\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZane Smith in the #38 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang rolled onto its side after contact from John Hunter Nemechek.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Turn 3, the #38 Ford Mustang got nudged by the #42 Legacy Motor Club Toyota Camry driven by John Hunter Nemechek.<\/p>\n<p>Sandwiched against the wall, Smith\u2019s car rode up the SAFER barrier and slid for several hundred metres on its side before coming down the track and rolling twice.<\/p>\n<p>The car landed on all four wheels before coming to a rest on the apron.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fucking #42 drove in there and fucking cleaned up us,\u201d said Smith on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>The carnage continued as Nemechek slid out of control into Ty Gibbs in the #54 Joe Gibbs Racing Camry and Josh Berry in the #21 Wood Brothers Racing Mustang.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A scary tumble on the restart \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Zane Smith exited the car after taking a scary tumble across the track on the restart. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NASCARPlayoffs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NASCARPlayoffs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3nHSQQeZn\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/w3nHSQQeZn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASCARonNBC\/status\/1972428631780856280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race was red-flagged while NASCAR officials assessed damage to the wall and to the track after a gouge was taken out of the asphalt.<\/p>\n<p>After being released from the infield care centre, Smith recounted the dramatic crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wild ride \u2013 no doubt,\u201d said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I knew it, I mean, I had a decent restart going, and then I just got wrecked by the #42\u2026 just drives through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen yeah, I was sliding on the wall. I was just mad at that point with how our day was going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis just pissed me off even more because that\u2019s what really hurt, was just flipping down the track. Violent, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a bummer. Right before that caution came out, I thought we were going to have a top 10 day racing up inside the top 10 the majority of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shame that it has to come to an end that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith was classified 31st and seven laps down after two overtime finishes. Todd Gilliland was the best of the Front Row Motorsports drivers in 12th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedcafe.com\/nascar-news-2025-kansas-svg-shane-van-gisbergen-results-career-best-oval-race-chase-elliott-wins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SVG survives scare for career-best NASCAR oval finish<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">For more of the latest NASCAR news stories, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/motorracing.com\/nascar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotorRacing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zane Smith in the #38 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang rolled onto its side after contact from John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,955,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-189193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}