{"id":186906,"date":"2025-10-03T07:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186906\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T07:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:21:06","slug":"nascar-ford-mustang-held-up-in-wild-wall-ride-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/186906\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Ford Mustang Held Up In Wild Wall Ride: Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR Ford Mustang<\/a> Dark Horse seems to be a crash magnet in the Cup Series, and the September 29th, 2025 event at Kansas Speedway was no different. In a bizarre wall-riding accident, a Mustang ended up on its side, though its driver escaped injury, a testament to the car\u2019s strength.<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> from NASCAR.com, Zane Smith was behind the wheel of the No. 38 NASCAR Ford Mustang when it tipped onto its side after contact with a competitor. Squeezed against the barrier, Smith\u2019s race car wound up driver\u2019s side down, skidding along the wall for several hundred feet before it finally separated from the wall and rolled before coming to a rest on all four wheels. Smith was able to exit the race car under his own power, but was understandably shaken after the wild ride.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on the \u201cHauler Talk\u201d podcast, Mike Forde, NASCAR managing director of communications, explained that the NASCAR Ford held up exactly like it was designed to under the conditions, protecting Smith from what could have been a very serious injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never like seeing that, so there is concern that it happened, but from the structural integrity of the car, we\u2019re not concerned,\u201d Forde said. \u201cWe were very, very happy with how all that went down\u2026 Nothing was bent, nothing was abnormal, so we gave the car back to the team, and they brought it back to the shop.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cZane came away really good there as far as how his seat positioning was, and there was no concern there, either. So, I think the next steps are we\u2019ll look at the race track, look at some more of the data as far as how it got up on the wall. Because cars do get pinched up against the wall often, and you don\u2019t always see that. But all in all, we\u2019re pretty happy with how all that went from a car standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The NASCAR Ford Mustang does a good job protecting its drivers. The race car kept Ryan Preece safe<\/a> when he rolled at Daytona<\/a> not once but twice in 2023 and 2025. Chris Buescher walked away from a similar crash at Charlotte in 2023 that proved the Mustang holds up well<\/a> in crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Ford Mustang Dark Horse seems to be a crash magnet in the Cup Series, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-186906","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-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186906","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=186906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}