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| 10 Oct 2013 10:43 AM |
Danny Johnson is thanking his lucky stars that he’s able to walk around the New York State Fairgrounds this week, let alone compete in the NAPA Super DIRT Week activities. On Tuesday night at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park, Johnson was involved in a grinding wreck late in the Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified ‘Stars & Stripes 100.’ After breaking a wheel at high speed halfway down the homestretch, Johnson’s Mike Petruska-owned Atlas Paving No. 66 began to roll and was t-boned hard at virtually full speed by Keith Flach. Many witnesses said it was one of the loudest car-to-car impacts they had ever heard – and Johnson called it one of the hardest hits he’s ever experienced in over three decades behind the wheel. “The headers were bent up over the air cleaner,” Johnson said of the damage done to his machine. “The car was pretty much demolished. They left a pile of it over there.” After finishing second in last night’s DIRTcar 358-Modified Series 75 at Weedsport (N.Y.) Speedway, Johnson looked back on the crash again. Neither Johnson nor Flach suffered anything more severe than soreness from the accident. “We’re fortunate I didn’t get hurt,” said Johnson, who is running another Atlas Paving mount in this week’s big-block action at the Mile. “That’s one thing I don’t wanna do is get hurt in a race car.” |
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