NASCAR Driver Hits Coyote At 190 MPH [Pictures]
Total Pro Sports - You thought those Coyotes in Phoenix were in bad shape? Wait till you see what happened to this one, luckily Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals can speak about his near death experience after almost being decapitated.
Brad Coleman, a driver for Joe Gibbs racing was traveling at 190 mph when he saw a coyote a mere 100 feet away. With no possible way of slowing down to save the creature, the driver ran it over. To his suprise he couldn't figure our where it went. He describes the incident,
“It just started smoking like crazy. And it smelled terrible. I didn’t see anything in the mirror, so I was like, ‘I wonder where it went?’".
It turns out where it went had alot to do with that terrible smell as the coyote and car were fused into one superbeing. All jokes aside these are some pretty gruesome pictures, and some claim may even be fake. The coyote didn't win this one, but nothing will ever will top Nascar's Carlos Pardo who died in a freak accident and still managed to win the race.
A representative from Joe Gibbs racing was able to confirm the incident did in fact happen but was unable to verify the pictures. Looks like this coyote bit off more then it could chew, should have went to see a women's tennis match or something with fewer speeding cars.
So we would like to hear from you. Do you think these photos are real or fake? Leave your comment below, thanks.
NASCAR Driver Hits Coyote
NASCAR Driver Hits Coyote At 190 MPH
NASCAR Driver Brad Coleman Hits Coyote At 190 MPH
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Just out of curiosity, what type of microfiber is used to absorb this impact?
There’s obviously, very little damage to the car. Maybe that’s why some may think the pictures are fake.
I say real
I hate the smell of burning coyote
look at those guts, thats disgusting. I wonder what the impact was like?
He should totally leave that there, it looks badass
Real no doubt.
Anyone up for roasted Coyote?
Thats crazy but i say FAKE.
Real. Even at that high of a speed the pelt is going to still be whole, more or less. I say real, although they may have posed the head.
What do you think the last thing that went trough its mind was?
The Car
@Steven Who knows what he was thinking. but you can bet he didnt remember after he got hit by the car
Shenanigans (NWS not cup)
Fake. Simple physics. a 30lb (or more) coyote hit @ more than 170 mph =
very serious damage to the vehicle (the front end is gone, basically)
and the only thing left of the coyote is a little burnt gristle.
Remember race cars are built very lite, and designed to crumple.
Like the name says, I’ve hit more animals than I care to remember, a few times at high speeds , though nothing like racecar speeds. large animals like deer can crack engine blocks, put people in hospitals, etc. Even small animals like 30lb dogs hit at hwy speeds can total the front end of a car, pushing the broken radiator into the engine, breaking timing chains or belts, thereby breaking valves, damaging pistons, bending cams and possibly rods, etc.
If the above was true, the driver would have been lucky to survive as at least some major damage to the steering components would likely have been done, leading to possible loss of control, and at those speeds…
Love the animal’s photoshopped expression, like wiley coyote.
its real it was my daddys car
Nice one killjoy.
“@Steven Who knows what he was thinking. but you can bet he didnt remember after he got hit by the car”
I believe the correct response would have been “his ass” sir.
Poor little guy
Dude are you insane!! That is not fake you idiot.. So you would splatter blood and guts all over the car and even tear into the grill and radiator just to post a pic like that? Absolutely ridiculous.. It Happened! Use your damn mind for more than a crack project!
Anyone who thinks this is fake,hasen’t driven in the wide open desert. I hit a coyote in 1983,outside of Gila Bend………… Knocked the pretty right off of my ‘74 Datsun pick-up. I was going approximately 90 MPH;I could imagine the impact at 190. WHEW! I’m just glad MR. Coleman was not injured. I was not there,but I would bet this is authentic.
DEE GARRIS PS: POOR YODY
Sorry,don’t mean to be a hog here,but have to comment on “ate”.Nice,interesting deduction,but I have to go back to Pocino some years ago. They were on the back stretch,and a deer ran right in front of the pack. I should of google a link,but is easy to find. These cars are design to absorb impact. But I understand where you are coming from. But have to respectfully disagree on the validity of this incedent. Who would desire the negative PUB? Wasen’t it Joe Gibbs Team? If so,I would suspect that he would not have anything to do with faking something like this.
Thanks” ATE” DEE
@ateroadkillbeentheredonethat
“Remember race cars are …. designed to crumple.”
that roll cage around the engine block and throughout the body suggests otherwise.
Theres no way a coyote is a real animal!
thats a dog.
someone has seen too many cartoons
@tom_mandory your an idiot you must not live in the country but yes coyotes are real and so are road runners get an education dumbass
Next you’re gonna tell me a platypus doesn’t exist
Look at the placement of the coyote. Dead center of the vent. What are the odds it’s not off to the left or off to the right? Also, the head is coming straight out like one of those mounted moose heads on someone’s wall. What are the chances that the head ends up in that position, which just happens to be perfect for display. F-F-F-F-F-F-Fake.
the driver should be killed. son of a bith killed such a beautiful animal
Ya because he MEANT to hit the coyote. That’s what all racers do.
I can’t believe the roadrunner got away after hitching a ridelike that. I guess Acme race cars arn’t fast enough.
I can’t think of any reason to fake the incident, other than a small bit of freak publicity, which I don’t think the driver needed. I think it COULD be fake, simply from a skeptical point of view.
The article barley states anything about where/when this took place. The only witnesses are the driver and his manager? If it did happen, there has to be someone else, such as a mechanic, that would have something to say about it.
And how could a coyote just be roaming around on a racetrack? They’re designed to make sure no person can get on the tracks unless they’re allowed, so how could a little animal just wandering around get onto them, at least without notice?
At “atroadkillbeentheredonethat”: Yes, large animals cause big damage to most vehicles – but it all depends. A coyote doesn’t have that much mass. Some can be very small and scrawny.
I’ve hit an adult deer at 70MPH in a small SUV ( a honda CRV, to be exact) – the airbags deployed and the animal ricocheted off the front of the car and 6ft onto the median. The force of the impact and the sudden deceleration it caused was enough to shatter the rear window, simply by the amount of G-forces applied to it. Yet… when we looked at the front of the car, it was still intact. The bumper and hood were crushed slightly, but the car held up, and the actual damage only went so far back as the radiator. Besides the fact it was leaking radiator fluid, it could have been driven away from the scene. So yes, you’re right, animals can cause some violent impact, but its no guarantee they will tear a car apart. Also, we’re talking about a NASCAR-type race car here – and they are not designed to crumple, really – they have a stiff steel cage and frame to protect the driver.
Looking strictly at the photos, I would say they look kind of fake. The Coyote’s head is pointed at the camera and it’s eyes are open with its mouth open and tongue lolling out, gruesomely picturesque. Something else bothers me about the front-end picture too – maybe the shadows? There’s barely any blood anywhere, except for some guts that look very nicely placed on the engine block. I don’t think a real impact would have looked like this. But who knows?
I also find it intersting that on the engine block theres the “TRD” logo for “Toyota Racing Development”
So toyota makes big block V8’s for NASCAR now? I didn’t know that…
Joe Gibbs racing builds their own engines, so “TRD” would not be present on the engine, which baffles me. And yes TRD does make engines for most of the Toyota cars in NASCAR (all not directly involed with Joe Gibbs racing).
Also they said it was at Phoenix, and Phoenix is only a 1 mile track therefore the cars would not be going 190 mph. Also Gibbs and the crew confimed the incident, NOT THE PICTURE, according to the article. The head looks very photoshopped. I would say the picture is real, but was photoshopped later (in the head area.
totally real. these cars are ment to stay together in cases of large accidents for both the safety of the driver, other drivers around them and especially the crowd! this isnt final destination. these tracks are huge, some hold golf courses within the track so i dont see it being easy to keep everything out. security doesnt deal with wildlife.
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ROLLAROLAA, of course TRD is building big-block V8’s for NASCAR. Hello, Toyota has been racing in NASCAR for a few years now, and in the Truck series even a few years before that. Do you think Toyota would put all that investment into the sport and run Chevy engines?
As for the pictures themselves, they do look fake just because of the position of the head. However, everything adds up for these to be real:
They say this car was driven by Brad Coleman racing for Joe Gibbs. Actually, this car is blue, which were the clors used by Hall of Fame Racing in 2006-2008. Hall of Fame partnered with Joe Gibbs Racing, who gave them Toyota cars and engines, so that is consistent.
Hall of Fame Racing is based in Texas, so testing at Texas World Speedway during the Winter would be normal for them. Since Texas is a “retired” track, it doesn’t have the extensive fencing around it that many tracks have today (and even all active tracks don’t have fencing all the way around – see Pocono). Animals can get in even at tracks that do have fencing all the way around – I’ve personally seen this during qualifying at Phoenix one year! Coyote would be active in the area during winter in Texas, and Texas would be one of the few places where coyote live where one could reach a backstraight speed of 190+ MPH.
Finally, the damage itself. I can tell you that damage looks pretty consistent with striking a 30# animal dead-center at bumper level at 190MPH. No, race cars are NOT designed to crumple. They are designed to ABSORB IMPACT – meaning if I hit a WALL at 190+ MPH, it would crumple – just enough to absorb the 100+ G’s of energy being dissipated in my collision and allow me to walk away. If a 30# coyote could destroy the entire front of my car, I don’t think I would ever go 190+ again! Also, many of you may recall Dale Earnhardt Sr. hitting a sea gull during the Daytona 500 one year (also at 190+). The bird was a lot less intact than this coyote, but didn’t hit dead-center on the bumper. The car itself was pretty much unscathed, except I think I recall it knocked the cover off a cooling duct they had sealed off, so they had to tape it off, but there was no deformity of the sheet metal itself. Of course, a sea gull is much smaller than a coyote, but looking at these pictures, it took a big hit to make that bumper push in even that little bit that it did. Not as big a hit as an immobile concrete wall, but certainly something larger than a sea gull. I would say a 30# coyote would about do it…
Looks like I can sell my rifle and buy a car to hunt this year, great road kill to bad such a mess but at least coyote is mounted looks good on grill
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Looks like the #1 ingrediant in Road Kill Chili and is REAL!
i say totally real i mean how do you fake that kinda stuff if you look closely at the hoof and the firewall you can clearly see blodd spatter which would be cause by the blood flowing through the radiator fins and gettin hack by the spinning fan belt and as for the comment one of you made bout the trd logo on the car yes toyota made a v8 for nascar it was the only way they were goin to keep up and meet specification by nascar
wouldn’t parts of it be burnt? like the guts inside? id guess that nascar cars get pretty of engines.
Oh it’s real…. I was at the TAPG the weekend it happened. Normally no camaras are allowed on site. But an exception was made for a Joe Gibbs tech to take pics of the coyote,,, who would believe just the story?
It’s real. I’ve seen what a goose can do to a B-52 traveling at 450-500 knots.
That’s how you make downforce these days, is it?
This is a FAKE! I’ve hit two deer, neither was much bigger than the coyote in the pic. First in a ‘86 Dodge Daytona going about 50, the front plastic grill was obliterated and the hood was flattened out with the front almost touching the ground ramping up to a nice impression of the engine’s valve cover in the sheet metal. Second was in a 69 Vette going about 60 at night, both headlight housings and lamps were obliterated, the steel bumper and it’s supports were mangled and the left braces went through the radiator and bent it back twisting the front cross member, the front of the car was pushed back about 10 inches which caused the fenders to shatter (they felt like jello – they broke in multiple places and the painted surface was turned to powder) and seperate at the seams from the top section with glass fibers sticking out all over the place, the hood broke and folded in two just above the front spindles, you fold was so high, you could not see the road from the driver’s seat. The deer was flipped up in the air and knocked completely off the road, there was blood and fur on the radio antenna – which is on the rear left corner of the car. If I was going even close to 100, I would have had a deer in my lap. The person who doctored the images has no idea what kind of damage this kind of impact causes.
The front ends on the NASCAR racecars are a microfiber type material which is much more absorbant than the crappy plastic front end on your Dodge. The damage to the car looks legitimate, but i maintain that the head was photoshopped in later. The main evidence i see that the head is photoshopped is the fact that no teeth were broken on the coyote despite an impact that detroyed the rest of its body.
Why on earth would anyone want to fake these pictures? Seriously? Why would one be inspired to shove a dead Coyote in their grill of their car and spread coyote guts inside the hood?? You can see there is some damage to the car, so what do you think, they took a hammer to the front end just to take a couple of pics? Doubt it.
My vote: Real.
Ok….I have one question, why in picture #2 the car is on GRAVEL…..I’ll just call Brad myself and ask him, what really happened. We’ll see.
Come ON!! They stuck it in there to fool you fools! – HELLO!?! Just go to youtube and see the “rabbit death” video to see what a rabbit does to a Mercedes race car not going anywhere near 190, pieces of air dam are going everywhere and it almost tears off the whole driver’s side fender. Then look at what a seagull did to an F18, it RIPPED a big gash in the aluminum of the tail section. And then look at the video from an insurance company showing a bunch of cars that have hit animals. All of the cars have structural damage – the only ones that are “not too bad – maybe driveable” are the ones that hit a tall animal and you can see that it was bounced up and over the car. ANY car that takes a direct hit like that would not drive away, no way, no how.
And now to all who think it’s real: Ba-a-a-aahhhhh, ba-a-a-a-ahhhh, ke-eeep up, sta-a-a-a-a-ay with the flo-o-o-o-ock, don’t stra-a-a-ay – baa-a-a-aaahhhh.
I mean an A10 Warthog – my bad
I mean “my baa-a-a-a-aad” for all you believers!!
Oh, and the coyote’s smile is very convenient too – every animal I’ve even come close to running over had its eyes GLUED on my front grill (thus the popular phrase – like a deer in the headlights). But of course, reality is not nearly as sensational, so in these pictures, it’s facing out so we can see it smile!
Someone already mentioned the vague time reference that is typical of hoaxes like this Read through a few hoaxes at snopes.com and you will see that this reads just like all the other fakes, and nothing like real news.
As for the “Why?” … … —oops so-o-o-o-orry, ba-a-a-aaah, I don’t ha-a-a-a-a-ave time, everybody’s lea-a-a-ving……..
Shut the hell up quadruple poster
juanvaldez,
Youre a fucking idiot. A deer is far more dense than a coyote. A plane is traveling MUCH faster than 190 (A2+10 is at least 200 just for takeoff). Of course this is real, was the head posed like that? ok maybe. But youre the sheep pal. I bet you also believe the moon landings were faked, 9/11 was an inside job and Obama is a kenyan muslim. Learn some critical thinking skills.
if you think this is fake, its not. This sort of thing happens from time to time. As a physicist I could explain the non newtonian forces that happen at such high impacts, but few would grok the math. Suffice to say a soft squishy thing being hit by a rigid thing at those speeds will take a long time to speed up and there for basically remain in place as the larger vehicle overtakes and “consumes” it.
see also:
http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/forums/useless-blabber/247020-how-do-you-stuff-140-pound-deer-inside-bmw.html
ive seen other animal hitting race cars, one was a rabbit hitting an Australian touring car on a main straight, there was a rabbit, then there was no rabbit. the front of the car had no damage and nothing to be seen of said rabbit.
though if you see the effects of a wombat vs a car its much more devistating. ots like hitting a tree stump
TO: Tom_Mandory What do you mean coyotes are not real animals?? OH YES THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE VERY REAL. As I have personally seen them 4 or 5 different times; AND I live in the country and I hear them many times at night howling when they make their kill. Also my neighbors have video tape of them out and around here at night. So to say a coyote is not a real animal is just totally wrong. They are VERY REAL!!! AND very much alive and all around throughout the USA.
yea man, now that is Coyote Hunting in it’s finest hour…
this kind of hunt should be legalized!!! just awesome!!
dang that had to cost the some pasos to fix looks real! ps dave h sux
The reason the car is on gravel in the first two pictures is probably because they removed the coyote in the third picture and pushed the car onto sement.
To the people that said this is fake, idiots…..I mean come on, did you look at the pictures at all? I say the head was posed but the rest was real.