Driver: Michael Annett
Car: No. 46 All State Peterbilt Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series car
Track: Pocono Raceway (June 6, 2016)
Bio: If you’re going to have a brake failure, heading into the 14-degree banking of Turn 1 at Pocono Raceway is not the place to have it happen. Michael Annett found that out the hard way in the Axalta We Paint Winners 400 on the 2.5-mile triangular track in the Pocono Mountains last summer.
Running in a line of cars heading toward Turn 1 at the end of the ridiculously long front straightaway at Pocono, Annett’s left front brake rotor started to come apart as he applied the binders for the corner. The No. 46 All State Peterbilt Chevrolet surrendered to the laws of gravity and careened toward the SAFER barriers without scrubbing much speed off and slammed it right-side first.
Annett rode the wall around the top of the turn and angled back across the track, bleeding off speed as he went. He finally came to a stop at the exit of the corner, headed down the Long Pond Straight, and thumped the window net down to signify that he was all right.
It was a prodigious lick and it damaged the car too badly to continue. Annett could not continue and finished 38th in the race.
The car, which was owned by Harry Scott, was liquidated when HScott shut down at the end of the 2016 season, and the car came to Dirty Mo Acres soon after that. Annett, as you know, came to JR Motorsports for 2017 to drive the No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro for Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s NASCAR Xfinity Series team.