Chris Simpson recently shared that he suffered a knee injury following his collision with Carson Ferguson at Eldora during The Dream at the beginning of June.

During the June 6th makeup preliminary feature for The Dream, Carson Ferguson clipped the cushion with his right rear. The contact whipped the front of his car around and put him into a barrel roll. As he was flipping around, Bobby Pierce clipped Ferguson’s left rear quarter panel spinning his car further down the track. Simpson, who ran the top side of the track had nowhere to go and plowed into Ferguson’s car.

On Facebook, following the wreck Simpson described the hit as “definitely top 2 one of the hardest hits I’ve ever took.” However, he also noted that he was “alright” but “bruised up pretty bad.”

He reiterated how hard of a hit it was telling DirtonDirt.com’s Kevin Kovac, “Like I was telling (crew members afterward), that’s the hardest that I’ve ever, like, hit someone, and just hit and stopped. Like, I’ve rolled (a car) and stuff before and I’ve felt fine, but that’s the hardest I’ve hit and gone from 100-and-some mph to dead stop.”

He also shared how he injured his knee in the wreck, “I hit my (left) knee on the searing shaft.”

After he left Eldora he said that “it wasn’t bad. It was just stiff, and then Saturday night (after arriving at his residence) it started really hurting, so then I went to the hospital and had X-rays.” Doctors informed him that his knee “was fine.” It was not broken, just bruised and he would have to deal with the pain until it healed.

Fortunately, it’s not a constant pain, he shared, “When I, like, bend to kneel down and do something, you can feel it.”

While he’s recovering from the knee injury, his car was a different story. As he noted in his Facebook post, it was “completely JUNK.” He explained to Kovac, “The frame was junk. I think we hit roll cage-to-roll cage, so it wrecked his roll cage and wrecked mine. I mean, it didn’t tear it or nothing. It just dented it, smashed it, (in the) right-front, right-rear. After they bang up the roll cage, they’re kind of throw-away piece after that.”

He did go and get a new Longhorn chassis and shared that he was able to salvage a number of parts from the wrecked car, “We could use a lot of the parts that were on that (wrecked) car because it was mainly just right-front (suspension) damage. So, I mean, it could have been a lot of worse. I could have junked a lot more stuff, but it’s still a lot of work.”

Additionally, Simpson shared that he is unlikely to compete at Eldora moving forward due to the amount of work it takes, “It will probably be our last time going to Eldora, just because it’s just too much work for us.” While it does not look like he will be competing at Eldora anymore, he does plan to make the trip to Fairbury for the Prairie Dirt Classic at the end of the month, “I can’t miss Fairbury.”

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