{"id":4557,"date":"2026-09-29T23:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:54:20","slug":"staging-lane-accident-leaves-carl-races-car-badly-damaged-at-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/?p=4557","title":{"rendered":"Staging Lane Accident Leaves Carl Race\u2019s Car Badly Damaged at Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Widner\u2019s race car was hit in the staging lanes at Bristol Dragway yesterday evening, leaving a car he\u2019s poured his heart into for nearly 30 years badly damaged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7568.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4556\" width=\"946\" height=\"1379\"><\/p>\n<p>Carl, from Elizabethton, TN said \u201cIt absolutely kills me to look at the pictures seeing it in this shape,\u201d Carl said. He thanked everyone who jumped in to help when he was too shaken to know what to do: \u201cA true racing family will be there for you no matter what!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder to always keep your head on a swivel and remain vigilant, even when you\u2019re in the staging lanes so that everyone goes home safe.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately Carl and everyone is ok. We wish him a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Also reminder to get insured from Laris Motorsports Insurance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7570.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4553\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7569.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4551\" width=\"946\" height=\"1192\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7571-1.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4552\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\"><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Carl Widner and Brianna Bailey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Widner\u2019s race car was hit in the staging lanes at Bristol Dragway yesterday evening, leaving a car he\u2019s poured his heart into for nearly 30 years badly damaged. Carl, from Elizabethton, TN said \u201cIt absolutely kills me to look at the pictures seeing it in this shape,\u201d Carl said. He thanked everyone who jumped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[61],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7568-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/img_7568-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"DC Media","author_link":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/author\/auteejay"},"authors":[{"term_id":61,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"auteejay","display_name":"DC Media","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d51765f05e753046aaf69cf0314e9a0f5c5945d8d9ed498ce027408f7d38abf9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"DC","last_name":"Media","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/DragCoverage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}