Driver: Will Kimmel
Car: No. 69
Track: Mobile International Speedway (March 14, 2015)
Bio: This car came to the Racecar Graveyard a total mess. Will Kimmel, driving this entry in the ARCA 200 at Mobile (Ala.) International Speedway, had made a power move to the outside heading into Turn 1 on a restart, only to find that the throttle had stuck. As Mobile International has no outer retaining wall in Turn 1, Kimmel launched off the Turn 1 banking and headed toward the parking lot at full song. The car bounced twice across 100 yards of grass, hit with the right front and landed on the left rear, right at the concrete retaining wall screening the parking lot. The force of the right-side impact knocked the section of wall down, but slowed Kimmel enough to prevent further carnage. A pickup truck, whose owner no doubt loved the great parking slot, absorbed the rest of the energy from the crash, moving a few feet with the impact. Kimmel, amazingly enough, was not seriously hurt in the crash, but the car sure was.
“The throttle hung, whether the firewall shifted or whatever,” Kimmel said just after the crash. “I knew we were going for a ride. I’m sore, but I don’t have a headache or anything.” Kimmel finished 23rd in the ARCA Racing Series event.
See a video of the wreck here: https://youtu.be/eide8RGvVWw