Nascar Coyote

Joe Gibbs Racing driver Brad Coleman was testing a Gibbs NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car at Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds earlier this week and came onto the radio and told his crew something rather unusual.

"Guys, I hit a coyote," Coleman said.

Coleman was running close to 200 mph around the 10-mile test track when he saw the animal wander under the outside guardrail.

"I'm in the middle of the corner, and I'm doing like 190," Coleman said Friday at Nashville Superspeedway before practicing his Nationwide Series car. "I'm just cruising. You run the high line there, because that's where the most banking is. It's the high-speed lane. There's just a guardrail there like on the freeway.

"I see this thing, it must've been 100 feet in front of me, just jump out. Right when I saw it come out from under the guardrail, I was like, 'That's a coyote.'"

"It just started smoking like crazy," Coleman said. "And it smelled terrible. I didn't see anything in the mirror, so I was like, 'I wonder where it went?' I said, 'Guys, I hit a coyote. I'm going to come in because I think it screwed up the radiator. I think it clogged up the grille a little bit.'"







Jim

Yuck; that coyote never expected a 190 mph car traveling down the track. The poor doggie never had a chance to get out of the way. Wonder what peta would say about this. And btw I think the head just may have been positioned for the photo. At that speed I would expect the head to be against the radiator also.

I was running 33 traffic one night at about 125 mph when I hit a huge dog. Did about the same thing to my patrol car.

Lol jim that is nuts, i bet all he had a chance to do was look and then it was all over.

Hell, Mike, he may not even had a chance to look going that rate of speed! LOLOL