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Old 08-06-2009, 05:01 PM
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Default 190 mph kiss of death for coyote!

Man ole Wiley bought the farm on this one!

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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Old 08-06-2009, 05:20 PM
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I remember hitting a dog in my '84 Fiero. It was like driving over a hay bale. Didn't stick to the grille, tho.....
 
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Old 08-07-2009, 02:56 PM
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Yea I got one of those mass e-mails from a million people that I don't know with that story. And somehow I feel sorry for the animal.
 
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wonder what the last thing to go thru his mind was?? lol
 
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Originally Posted by hoedogg
wonder what the last thing to go thru his mind was?? lol
Whoa what's tha
 
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Old 08-10-2009, 09:27 PM
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Whoa what's tha


His ***!
 
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Old 08-11-2009, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Worlok14
His ***!
Haha I was trying to answer what was going through his head as he saw a streak of sheet metal bearing down on him
 
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poor doggy
 
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