A few laps into the NASCAR Truck Series race on Saturday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bayley Currey thought he had a really competitive chance to win until his windshield started to buckle and cave in.
His race ultimately ended on Lap 94 when it resulted in the air ripping his entire roof off the chassis of his No. 41 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet in Turn 4.
It was quite the sight when Currey pulled his truck down pit road.
“We hit a piece of debris early and when that happened, it knocked the left side brace down and there’s so much turbulent air here, trucks moving around and being in the draft,” Currey told Sportsnaut after the race. “It’s start flapping and flapping and it’s like a Coke can, you bend it back and forth, and it’s going to break.
“Basically, the windshield bed separated from the roof, all the braces broke and for about 20 laps, was running with the windshield running on the roll cage.
“I didn’t want to stop because we had a great truck. It was awesome. We could have won the race but it kept getting worse and worse and worse. I could feel the drag getting into the truck, could feel it getting colder inside the truck. It started whistling down the backstretch and I knew it coming.”
There it went.
“It sucks, really sucks because we could have won this race.”
It also sucked for Ty Dillon, whose truck struck the roof, heavily damaging their Rackley WAR race vehicle too.