NASCAR Coyote Collision Incident
April 21, 2009
 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.'"
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