With just 39 laps to go in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Bayley Currey hit a snag when his Chevrolet’s roof decided to bail, forcing him to bow out early. The first heads-up about Currey’s rooftop trouble came from Matt Crafton’s radio. Crafton, who was trailing right behind Currey, witnessed the roof starting to come loose. That was pretty much the end of the road for Currey, as he had to steer off the track and make a beeline for the garage. But Dale Earnhardt Jr pointed out that NASCAR dropped the ball by not stepping in during what was clearly a risky situation on the track.

Dale Earnhardt Jr reckons NASCAR should’ve waved Bayley Currey into the pits, pronto

In the first stage, Currey’s ride got dinged up when he hit some debris, messing up his windshield brace. That set off a chain reaction, bending and eventually busting his roof clean off. Currey explained to Racing America’s Toby Christie: “There’s so much turbulent air here with the trucks moving around in the draft. We started moving back and forth and with that, it was like a Coke can if you bend it enough it’s going to break… and it broke.”

When Currey’s roof flap decided to take flight, it ended up smacking Ty Dillon’s truck. Dillon’s #25 truck got off with just a scratch or two and he managed to finish P14. Dale Jr brought this up on his podcast, stressing that NASCAR needs to pull cars or trucks off the track the minute something like this happens. Dale Jr seemed pretty adamant that a flying roof isn’t just bad news—it’s flat-out dangerous. “I think that going forward when a car has that happening, it has to get black flagged, black flag, the car, truck, whatever, and it has to come down pit road and get that fixed.”

Ty Dillon‘s day on the track almost turned into a nightmare because of that wild moment. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time—Dillon’s #25 Rackley truck got an unexpected makeover when Currey’s roof decided to drop in, giving it a bit of a ding.

Chatting with FrontStretch, Dillon shared his disbelief, saying, “I have never seen anything [like this]. It is one of those things that, I was in the middle of the pack, and I saw sheet metal in the air. And my brain just registered it as a roof and I am like, no, there is no way that is a roof, and then it literally landed on my lap.”

And to add insult to injury, this was the second race in a row where Currey found himself in a pickle. Just last week at Daytona, he tangled up with Bret Holmes right from the get-go. But it looks like NASCAR is on the case. Bob Pockrass had already mentioned that NASCAR scooped up Currey’s runaway roof and was planning a little chat with his team. Now, it seems they’ve made their call.

Did NASCAR levy any penalties on Bayley Currey and Co.?

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After Currey’s windshield started acting all weird and part of his roof decided to take a solo flight, causing everyone to hit the brakes, he had to duck into the pits and then head off to the garage. That’s where the NASCAR folks were waiting to take a closer look at his truck. They even snagged the piece of the roof and decided to bail.

Currey spilled the beans to TRE, saying he ran into some debris that messed with his windshield’s hold, leaving the windshield to chill on the bars and let all sorts of air into the cockpit and under the roof. That’s when the roof decided it had enough and took off. But the main part—As per theracingexperts.com, NASCAR didn’t slap any fines or penalties on Currey.

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A NASCAR rep explained they were in a bit of a pickle trying to figure out whether the bolts bailed before the roof did its disappearing act or the other way around. So, they decided to hold off on any penalties. They’re planning to send their safety squad over to the shop on Wednesday to give the truck a thorough once-over.