> Joe Gibbs' Racing driver Brad Coleman was testing a Gibbs NASCAR
> Sprint Cup Series car at Toyota Arizona Proving Grounds earlier this
> week and came onto the radio and told his crew something rather
> unusual.
>
> "Guys, I hit a coyote," Coleman said.
>
> Coleman was running close to 200 mph around the 10-mile test track
> when he saw the animal wander under the outside guardrail.
> "I'm in the middle of the corner, and I'm doing like 190," Coleman
> said Friday at Nashville Superspeedway before practicing his
> Nationwide Series car. "I'm just cruising. You run the high line
> there, because that's where the most banking is. It's the high-speed
> lane. There's just a guardrail there like on the freeway.
>
> "I see this thing, it must've been 100 feet in front of me, just jump
> out.
> Right when I saw it come out from under the guardrail, I was like,
> 'That's a coyote.'"
>
> "It just started smoking like crazy," Coleman said. "And it smelled
> terrible. I didn't see anything in the mirror, so I was like, 'I
> wonder where it went?' I said, 'Guys, I hit a coyote. I'm going to
> come in because I think it screwed up the radiator. I think it clogged
> up the grille a little bit.'"
>
>
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