NASCAR: Carson Kvapil's car flips wildly less than 2 laps into O'Reilly Series race at Kansas
Kvapil went from starting first to being upside down in the span of a minute.
Less than a minute after taking the green flag from the pole position in Saturday night’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Kansas, Carson Kvapil was upside down. Kvapil’s car flipped on the backstretch on the second lap of the race after contact with his JR Motorsports teammate William Byron. As Kvapil was in the middle of Byron on the inside and his other JRM teammate Justin Allgaier on the outside, Kvapil’s car turned head-on into the outside wall after the contact.
Then, as he was hitting the wall, Kvapil’s car got hit by Parker Retzlaff and that impact launched his car into a tumble. Scary scene at Kansas as @Carson_Kvapil 's car flips over shortly after the green flag. He was able to walk away from the wreck 🙏 pic.
twitter. com/z4NI1j3IXh — The CW Sports (@TheCW_Sports) April 18, 2026 Kvapil was able to exit the car himself after safety workers flipped the car back on its wheels. Here’s how the wreck unfolded.
More angles of the incident involving @Carson_Kvapil . https://t. co/BMwxR52GGo pic.