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Video: NASCAR crew member narrowly escapes runaway wheel in pit scare
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Video: NASCAR crew member narrowly escapes runaway wheel in pit scare

Motorsports April 13, 2025
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In the course of the second stage of the NASCAR Cup race, the primary warning for trigger flew on Lap 178 when Shane van Gisbergen spun after contact with Cody Ware. A break up technique noticed a number of the leaders dive to pit street for recent rubber, regardless that the anticipated tire put on for Sunday’s race by no means got here to fruition.

Amongst those that selected to pit was John Hunter Nemechek within the No. 42 Legacy Motor Membership Toyota. Nonetheless, his crew didn’t correctly safe the left-rear wheel and as he drove out of the stall, the one lug nut rapidly fell away. Quickly after, the wheel itself separated and started the roll previous Nemechek’s automotive.

Because the wheel wandered on, it started to float from into some empty pit bins. It was heading immediately in the direction of the rear of Daniel Suarez’s No. 99 Trackhouse Racing crew Chevrolet, which was mid-stop. Unaware of the approaching wheel, the rear tire changer ran across the again of the automotive from the suitable to the left facet. Solely a mere second later, the wheel lastly arrived, slamming into the rear bumper earlier than ricocheting off the pit wall. Fortunately, nobody was injured because the crew member narrowly escaped being struck.

Video of the incident
 

Each vehicles had been working off the lead lap on the time. Suarez’s crew was truly penalized for gear interference as they let their very own tire roll right into a neighboring pit field and get in the way in which of one other crew’s fueler in the course of the chaotic second.

NASCAR has strict guidelines surrounding free wheels, however it’s extra targeted on when wheels turn out to be separated from the automotive out on the race monitor. That may usually result in a two-lap in-race penalty and a two-race suspension for 2 crew members. Nemechek’s No. 42 escaped that penalty for the reason that incident was contained to the pits.

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