{"id":64575,"date":"2025-08-12T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64575\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:18:09","slug":"nascar-driver-wins-race-then-falls-off-roof-of-his-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/64575\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Driver Wins Race, Then Falls Off Roof of His Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday\u00a0(Aug. 9) at the Watkins Glen International Speedway, 19-year-old rookie Connor Zilisch won the NASCAR Xfinity Series Mission 200, then proceeded to fall off the roof of his car in the winner&#8217;s circle.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all fun and games until someone gets hurt, and Zilisch learned that the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>Coming off of the high of winning the whole dang race,\u00a0Zilisch drove into\u00a0the winner&#8217;s circle, ready to celebrate with his crew, family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>But before that\u00a0could happen, he\u00a0had to exit the car, which in NASCAR you have to do out of the window of your vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watch the moment below. As\u00a0Zilisch has his\u00a0behind\u00a0on the window sill of the driver&#8217;s side, he then takes his right foot and steps onto the roof of his number 88 car while slinging a drink around on everyone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tasteofcountry.png\" alt=\"Taste of Country logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As he gets his right foot onto the roof, his left misses the window sill or gets caught up, and next thing you know, he falls directly onto his collarbone, breaking it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What was a momentous occasion for the rookie soon turned ugly, and now he has an injury that will\u00a0have him off the racetrack for at least 6-8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine the embarrassment the rookie felt as he went to celebrate his seventh career win in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, only to\u00a0go viral for the wrong reason.<\/p>\n<p>When Is the\u00a0Next NASCAR Cup Series Race?<\/p>\n<p>The next NASCAR Cup series race is coming up on\u00a0Aug. 16 NASCAR at Richmond<br \/>Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>The next NASCAR Xfinity Series race is\u00a0Aug. 22 at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>How Old\u00a0Is NASCAR?<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR\u00a0turned 74 years old this year. The racing league formed on February 21, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Best Country Songs About NASCAR<\/p>\n<p>Country music and NASCAR have a long history! Many fans of the genre just so happen to be fans of the motorsport and so are many of the artists themselves. So it&#8217;s no surprise there are a few songs inspired by racing.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve rounded up eight of the best country songs about NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/jess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jess Rose<\/a><\/p>\n<p>13 NASCAR Drivers With Smokin&#8217; Hot Wives<\/p>\n<p>These 13 NASCAR drivers really outkicked their coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Learn how racers like Jeff Gordon, Brad Keslowski, Harrison Burton and Dale Earnhardt Jr. met their  wives. Many of these women have modeling or dance experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photogallery-credit\">Gallery Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/author\/billydukes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy Dukes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday\u00a0(Aug. 9) at the Watkins Glen International Speedway, 19-year-old rookie Connor Zilisch won the NASCAR Xfinity Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-64575","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\/64575","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=64575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}