53-year-old NASCAR driver, Mark Martin, narrowly avoided serious injury at this weekend’s Pure Michigan 400. Martin, who qualified on pole position and was leading the race, got caught up in a tail end wreck that saw him lose control of his No.55 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota on lap 64. After skidding sideways for some 30-metres, his car was literally impaled when it hit an opening in the pit wall. Fortunately Martin emerged smiling and unscathed. Lucky – a couple of centimetres more and that concrete barrier would have punched straight through the driver’s side door.