Less than a minute after taking the green flag from the pole position in Saturday night’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas, Carson Kvapil was upside down.
Kvapil’s car flipped on the backstretch on the second lap of the race after contact with JR Motorsports teammate William Byron. As Kvapil was in the middle of Byron on the inside and his other JRM teammate, Justin Allgaier, on the outside, Kvapil’s car turned head-on into the outside wall after the contact.
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Then, as he was hitting the wall, Kvapil’s car got hit by Parker Retzlaff and that impact launched his car into a tumble.
Kvapil was able to exit the car himself after safety workers flipped the car back on its wheels. Here’s how the wreck unfolded.
“Not too fun, I actually didn’t think it was going to flip over like that,” Kvapil said to the CW after he was checked and released from the infield care center.
It was a wreck that looks more common at a track like Daytona or Talladega, but cars have shown a tendency to leave all four wheels at Kansas in recent years. Last year, Zane Smith’s car rode the wall on its side at Kansas in the Cup Series race and Erik Jones’ car flipped over on the backstretch in the 2017 Cup Series race at Kansas.
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Kvapil, 22, is the son of former NASCAR Truck Series champion Travis Kvapil. He’s in his second full-time season in NASCAR’s No. 2 series and finished fourth in the standings a season ago after he was one of the four drivers racing for the championship in the final year of NASCAR’s winner-take-all championship race playoff format.
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