Zachary Price, Ryan Blaney’s rear tire changer, was caught between cars during a Brickyard 400 pit road crash

NASCAR’s Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 at the Brickyard Sunday saw quite the incident, with a seven-car crash on pit road leading to a member of Ryan Blaney’s pit row team getting caught between cars. The crew member, rear tire changer Zachary Price, was alert afterwards and gave the crowd a thumbs-up (seen above) before being taken away in an ambulance for evaluation. Here’s video of the pit road crash that started this:

It's a PILEUP on pit road at @IMS!

The #Brickyard400 is underway on @NBC: https://t.co/wKDI0aNMYn #NBCRacingWeekend pic.twitter.com/FrOHnH0Rkd

— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) July 5, 2020

The red flag is out in the #Brickyard400 after a serious incident on pit road.

📺: NBC | @IMS pic.twitter.com/9ZmgGPSuw8

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) July 5, 2020

And here’s video of what happened to Price afterwards (the replay starts around 0:29), with Brennan Poole’s car pinning him between itself and Blaney’s car:

Brave people that climb over the wall on pit road.

Happy to see the @Blaney pit crew member smiling with a thumbs up after a crash in the early goings of the #Brickyard400 on @NBC. pic.twitter.com/CCAak9kCCO

— NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) July 5, 2020

Todd Gordon, Blaney’s crew chief, said on the team radio that Price would be okay:

Blaney told his crew member will be all right.

“Could’ve been a lot worse,” Todd Gordon said

— Alan Cavanna (@AlanCavanna) July 5, 2020

Rough transcript of what Todd Gordon told Blaney on the radio after crew member hurt leg: He'll be alright given time to recover. Looked a lot worse than it was.

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) July 5, 2020

And another team’s tire changer slid over to help Blaney’s crew for the rest of the race:

#NASCAR … Curtis Thompson, rear tire changer on the No. 32 team will move over and be the rear tire changer for Ryan Blaney's team after Zach Price was injured in that incident.

Team Penske provides the pit crew for the No. 32 Go Fas Racing team.

— Dustin Long (@dustinlong) July 5, 2020

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway pit road is notoriously narrow, as mentioned in one of those clips above, and it has seen some notable collisions before. But this one looked particularly scary, especially with Price getting caught between cars. It’s good to see that Price was alert and smiling after this, and to hear that he’ll be all right in time. As per Matt Weaver of AutoWeek, Price was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.

[NBC Sports]