[Karl Bebout]

A little too much excitment! I certainly lucked out though. No body damage, the hub is very thick aluminum that had a flat spot on the bottom "milled" off. Broke the trunk pan but since its fiberglass, I just "glued" it back together. Did wrinkle some of the trunk aluminum panels but was able to straighten all but one and I got a replacement from ERA. Certainly coulda been much worse. I'd been hitting the rumble strips pretty hard but was down to only 35-40 MPH when the wheel came off. Glad the wheel didn't hit anyone or anything on its 1000'+ journey. It finally hit the fence and the track guys chased it down with their truck. Put the wheel back on and drove back to the pits. People were not pleased to have the track slowed down for a while. ha