“It was shaping up to be a good result for me and we got some stage points in the first stage and we were just hoping we could get a good result,” Sieg told reporters after being released from the Infield Care Center. “You know how it goes with the green-white-checkered cars. They get pretty destroyed, but that’s exactly what happened, like I said, on the backstretch.”

“I was behind the No. 48 and, I don’t know, they were all pushing and the No. 45 got out of control and the No. 42, I don’t know. I hit the No. 48 and the No. 42 – I guess – just didn’t get off the ground. From there, I turned into the infield and closed my eyes as I was about to flip headfirst. It was a scary ride. I’m glad I’m OK. I got the wind knocked out of my sails there. I’m just glad I’m OK.”

Sieg has made 69 career starts, including 20 in the ARCA Menards Series, and yet this was the first time he ever flipped upside down in a race car. It really shook him up.

“It just kept rolling upside down,” Sieg said. “I was hoping it would stop. Thought I was going to land upside down. Luckily it landed upright. I’m feeling a little sore in my right arm right now and I hope it’s OK. That’s all. I just got the air knocked out of my lungs and I closed my eyes. Then it went upside down, that was a big hit and that was all.”

The NXS race used the Speedway package that is also used at other drafting racetracks such as Daytona International Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway, but the different racing style did not directly lead to the scary situation for Sieg.

“Right now I would probably say I wish we had gone to the high horsepower,” he continued. “It adds variety, but you can race. You know, green-white-checkered, that’s going to happen. Someone’s going to break if you don’t step on the gas, and that’s the result.”