Watch NASCAR Truck Series Racer Austin Theriault Suffer A Massive Wreck At Las Vegas – This Happened Last Night


Watch NASCAR Truck Series Racer Austin Theriault Suffer A Massive Wreck At Las Vegas – This Happened Last Night

Austin Theriault is one of the talented young drivers in the NASCAR truck series these days and the dude has a pretty interesting story. He grew up and honed his driving skills in northern Maine, a place more well known for sled dog racing and potato growers than stock car racing. Overcoming his geographic proximity to virtually nothing NASCAR related, he has built himself a nice career and continues to get better and better on a week to week basis in the trucks.

Last night the trucks were racing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and it was not a happy ending for the kid from Maine. As you will see in the video, Theriault was minding his own business and hauling around the track when another competitor got loose in one of the corners and was essentially dirt tracking his truck. As the thing went into a slide it also worked its way down to nearly the apron of the course and effectively closed to door on Theriault.

Austin’s truck hit the other truck in a glancing fashion and proceeded to climb the grade of the track before absolutely center punching the wall head-on. It was a massive impact that took both front wheels and removed them from contact with the ground. All the suspension and stuff was mashed up, the nose was blunted, and when Theriault got out of the truck he was pretty woozy. Taken to the hospital for observation, we have not seen any reports to indicate that the isn’t sore but OK.

Where he hit is one of the few places at LVMS that has not been lined with SAFER style walls. Other than expense, we ‘re more sure why the whole place does not have them but in this case, it would have been a nasty smack whether there was some padding or not. We’re just really glad that the kid from Maine is OK and will race another day.

PRESS PLAY TO SEE AUSTIN THERIAULT WRECK HARD AT VEGAS


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2 thoughts on “Watch NASCAR Truck Series Racer Austin Theriault Suffer A Massive Wreck At Las Vegas – This Happened Last Night

  1. jerry z

    It wasn’t just another competitor, it was his own teammate! That’s gonna leave him sore from in the morning!

  2. Bill Jones

    Seems like having the name Austin is a curse on oval track racing. First Austin Dillon, and now him.

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