That’s how Ryan Green described this crash. It occurred along the frontstretch during the Pro All Stars Series feature at White Mountain Motorsports Park in Woodstock, New Hampshire.
“It was a heck of a ride,” Green, of Berwick, Maine, said. “My car climbed up the wall, got airborne, broke apart as I rode the wall it for a while, and then came down crashing on the track.”
Green had just returned from a pit stop and was making his way to the front of the field.
“I felt I had a top-10 car,” said Green. I tried the bottom racing with Kyle Salemi. Kyle gave me the space to go to the top line. Coming out of turn two, Cole Robie took the inside, forcing a three-wide situation with Kyle in the middle and me on the outside,” Green said. “Cole and Kyle made contact, which led to Kyle and me making contact. That’s how it all started.”
Green sat in an Ultra Shield full-containment seat, with a Schroth five-point harness. He wore a Stilo helmet paired with a Simpson Hybrid head-and-neck restraint.
“I was not injured, just a little sore a couple days later,” Green said. “My muscles are tender, but I’m still walking and working. My car, though, is a different story. It’s totaled.”
The car, a 2019 chassis from Distance Racing Products, was the first pro stock he bought new.
“The fuel pump was sheared from the engine as it hit the wall — we’re lucky it didn’t burn,” said Green. “It’s even a harder hit for our small, family racing team — we’re looking at a $60,000 loss. We’re looking at all our options. We will try to rebuild and come back better than we were.”
Ryan Green appreciated the outpouring of concern and offers of help he has received from the racing community.
“Six people offered me cars to drive,” Green said. “We have one more race — Oktoberfest at Lee USA Speedway [in New Hampshire]. I drove Joey Doiron’s car twice this season. He crew chiefs for me when he’s not driving, so I probably will be driving his car at Oktoberfest. As for our family team, we will be having discussions about its future.”
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
