J.J. Yeley crashes in practice

J.J. Yeley crashed in the final practice for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The car will not be able to race Sunday. He will have to use the team's back-up car.
"The car got going the wrong direction," said Yeley, driver of the No. 18 Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing. "We went out made three or four runs and the car was really good. We were going to make an eight lap run to see how our tire wear was and for whatever reason it got loose on the exit of turn four. It really caught me by surprise. We did a couple of things and the car was actually a little bit snug at that point. I was already on the throttle at that point and winding the wheel to get to the exit, the car got sideways. I thought I had it saved for a minute, I just couldn't keep it the car caught up. It spun around and the left side hit the wall real, real hard."
The car Yeley crashed had yet to race and was a new one the team brought out for this race. Yeley was not injured too badly in the single-car crash. He said he hurt his elbow and should be able to qualify and race.
"It is a shame, it is a brand new car and it was driving really, really good," Yeley said. "We hadn't done any kind of qualifying yet. We will have to go to a backup car and go from there. I am fine, I hit my elbow. Any time you hit the wall at 180 m.p.h., something is going to hurt."