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CUP: Furniture Row Hauler Involved In Chain-Reaction Accident
The Furniture Row Racing team transporter and motorhome were heavily damaged as part of a 34-vehicle chain-reaction pileup...
The Furniture Row Racing team transporter was damaged in a 34-vehicle chain-reaction pileup on black ice and snow in Colorado. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
The Furniture Row Racing team transporter and motorhome were heavily damaged as part of a 34-vehicle chain-reaction pileup on black ice and snow Monday morning in Colorado, but team General Manager Joe Garone was just thankful that none of his personnel were seriously hurt.
Garone said Gary Miller, driver of the motorhome, could have run into the back of cars but opted instead to run into the back of the team hauler. Miller suffered some bumps and bruises, according to Garone.
“He made a choice to run into our trailer at almost a dead stop rather than run through all the cars,” Garone said. “He took that motorhome head-on into the back of the trailer. … It’s a miracle he’s alive. He turned into the hauler rather than run over the cars.
“The hauler had just about gotten stopped and he was still trying to get stopped and sliding.”
The motorhome was totaled and much of the hauler was damaged.
Garone didn’t know how much damage the hauler suffered, he said, because employees are going to have to cut into the hauler to open it and look inside. The tractor of the hauler was destroyed.
“We were able to get in the lounge and that was it,” said Garone, who didn’t have an estimate of the damage. “The equipment inside is damaged as well as the outside, from what we can tell.”
Furniture Row Racing, based in Colorado, will use its test hauler to get its cars to Homestead for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Richard Childress Racing will bring a hauler for the team to work out of during the weekend.
Furniture Row has an alliance with RCR. The Homestead cars for driver Regan Smith were not used this past weekend at Phoenix, which is where the haulers were coming from at the time of the accident.
“RCR graciously offered up a hauler they had that was sitting there ready to go,” Garone said. “They’re going to bring that down and we’re going to work out of it. The way RCR is, I think they would help anybody, but [with our alliance] obviously there’s a nice trust factor there using their equipment.”
Garone said his team uses two sets of transporter drivers, and those who were involved in the accident weren’t scheduled to drive to Homestead this weekend.
“The big thought for us is nobody got hurt – the rest of it is somewhat immaterial,” Garone said.
The accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. local time on Interstate 25 northbound in Larkspur, about 40 miles south of Denver and 30 miles north of Colorado Springs.
“If you look over the series over all the years we’ve done this, it’s incredible there hasn’t been more incidents just with as much driving as these guys do,” Garone said. “Their driving record is impeccable.”
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Garone said Gary Miller, driver of the motorhome, could have run into the back of cars but opted instead to run into the back of the team hauler. Miller suffered some bumps and bruises, according to Garone.
“He made a choice to run into our trailer at almost a dead stop rather than run through all the cars,” Garone said. “He took that motorhome head-on into the back of the trailer. … It’s a miracle he’s alive. He turned into the hauler rather than run over the cars.
“The hauler had just about gotten stopped and he was still trying to get stopped and sliding.”
The motorhome was totaled and much of the hauler was damaged.
Garone didn’t know how much damage the hauler suffered, he said, because employees are going to have to cut into the hauler to open it and look inside. The tractor of the hauler was destroyed.
“We were able to get in the lounge and that was it,” said Garone, who didn’t have an estimate of the damage. “The equipment inside is damaged as well as the outside, from what we can tell.”
Furniture Row Racing, based in Colorado, will use its test hauler to get its cars to Homestead for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Richard Childress Racing will bring a hauler for the team to work out of during the weekend.
Furniture Row has an alliance with RCR. The Homestead cars for driver Regan Smith were not used this past weekend at Phoenix, which is where the haulers were coming from at the time of the accident.
“RCR graciously offered up a hauler they had that was sitting there ready to go,” Garone said. “They’re going to bring that down and we’re going to work out of it. The way RCR is, I think they would help anybody, but [with our alliance] obviously there’s a nice trust factor there using their equipment.”
Garone said his team uses two sets of transporter drivers, and those who were involved in the accident weren’t scheduled to drive to Homestead this weekend.
“The big thought for us is nobody got hurt – the rest of it is somewhat immaterial,” Garone said.
The accident occurred at about 8:30 a.m. local time on Interstate 25 northbound in Larkspur, about 40 miles south of Denver and 30 miles north of Colorado Springs.
“If you look over the series over all the years we’ve done this, it’s incredible there hasn’t been more incidents just with as much driving as these guys do,” Garone said. “Their driving record is impeccable.”
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