{"id":178754,"date":"2025-09-29T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:12:13","slug":"nascars-zane-smith-survives-massive-crash-at-kansas-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178754\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR’s Zane Smith Survives Massive Crash at Kansas Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"

During NASCAR<\/a>‘s Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway, Zane Smith ended up riding the wall after tumbling during Turn 4. He did a double barrel-roll before landing right-side up. <\/p>\n

Smith was driving in the high lane at Turn 3, riding side-by-side with Front Row Motorsports teammate Todd Gilliland, when John Hunter Nemechek charged into the back of Smith’s car, leading him into the wall. <\/p>\n

He was pinned against the wall further once Nemechek lost control of his car, leading to Smith riding the barriers before completing two full car rotations and somehow landing on all four tires. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a wild ride, no doubt,\u201d Smith told NBC Sports. \u201cI had a decent restart going, and I just get wrecked by the 42. He just drives through me, and then I was sliding on the wall. <\/p>\n

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“I was just mad at that point from how our day was going, and this just pissed me off even more because that\u2019s what really hurt was just flipping down the track.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was violent, no doubt, but we had such a fast Speedy Cash Ford today. It\u2019s just a bummer. Right before that caution came out, we were gonna have a top-10 day, racing<\/a> up inside the top 10 a majority of the day and it\u2019s a shame that it has to come to an end that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to Nemechek and Smith’s involvement in the crash, Ty Gibbs and Josh Berry were also involved in the wreck. Gibbs was the only car in the mix to finish, while everyone else ended up not completing their race.<\/p>\n

The incident happened towards the end of the race, on Lap 267, when the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford Mustang Dark Horse was running in the top 15 and could have notched a potential top 10 finish, but he ended up looking at the crows and signalling that he was okay. <\/p>\n

For more NASCAR news, head on over to\u00a0Newsweek Sports.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During NASCAR‘s Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway, Zane Smith ended up riding the wall after tumbling during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-178754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}