At Bark River Worldwide Raceway on Saturday afternoon, Wyatt Miller was driving a Professional Spec truck within the Championship Off-Highway Sequence.
The 14-year-old grandson of NASCAR’s biggest icon, Dale Earnhardt Sr., (and nephew of Dale Earnhardt Jr.) was working third when his truck bit right into a rut at a quick right-hander, and it shortly rolled. The No. 73 Chevrolet rotated thrice within the dramatic airborne crash earlier than increasing all of its power and slamming to a halt on its tires.
Wyatt promptly put his mangled machine again in gear and drove away from the accident scene, which triggered his mom, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, to attract some speedy parallels to his grandfather, the seven-time NASCAR Cup Sequence champion. Whereas it was a valiant effort to salvage one thing from the day, he nonetheless completed fifteenth (final) as a result of harm.
In 1997, Dale Earnhardt Sr. famously flipped on the Daytona 500. His iconic black No. 3 landed again on its wheels, and after realizing the automobile was nonetheless driveable, Earnhardt drove it again to the pits. Earnhardt was truly entering into the ambulance when he modified his thoughts, shortly climbing again into the automobile.
“Had somewhat Déjà vu at present after (Wyatt) took a fairly good tumble at Bark River after shedding brakes,” posted Kelley Earnhard Miller after Saturday’s incident. “Again at it tomorrow as Ryan Beat Motorsports will get it put again collectively!”
She connected a really improbable video (which we have included beneath), clipping collectively Wyatt’s Bark River rollover with Dale Sr.’s 1997 Daytona 500 crash all whereas ‘Struggle Pigs’ from Black Sabbath performs within the background. It looks like Wyatt inherited his grandfather’s by no means surrender angle…
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