Garrett Alberson’s family reported that his surgery scheduled for Thursday was successful. Alberson required surgery after he was struck by an object during the North/South 100 at Florence Speedway.

The family shared in a post to Facebook, “Surgery went well, the MD was really happy with how Garrett did & how he came out of it.”

“We’re home and resting thanks to all of yall rallying around us, and taking care of us,” they added. “Thank you for the gofund me, Venmo, prayers, the continued support and the good vibes. We’ll take it one day at a time from here.”

Alberson was injured with 40 laps left in the 100-lap feature. He was running in 7th and slowed in the top of turn 1 and eventually came to a stop in turn 2. He quickly unbuckled and exited the car. After he got out of the car, he dropped to his knees as he worked to get his helmet off. 

FloRacing’s Dustin Jarrett would report that “Garrett was hit with something out there on the race track: a rock, a mud clot, not real sure. It actually made a laceration above his eye, above one of his eyes. The rock, mud clot, whatever it was. And so they are going to transport him to a local hospital for further evaluation.”

After being evaluated at a local hospital, Alberson’s wife Dani shared that he suffered “a broken nose, a couple facial fractures and a laceration above his eye. The docs did a good taking care of him.”

It’s unclear exactly what struck him, but he and his team shared in a post to Facebook on Tuesday, August 11th, “Given the extent of damage to his face, we have to guess whatever came through the bars was much heavier. His shield did not shatter, it indented and smashed the whole helmet into his head.”

“We are blessed that Simpson Race Products made such a durable helmet, the doctors told us it likely saved his eyes, and his life,” the team added. “The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series officials did a great job getting him taken care of on track, and have reviewed the helmet since.”

In addition to the post they shared the damage the object did to his helmet.

Alberson also informed StockCarReport, “What it was didn’t quite make it through the shield but impacted hard enough to essentially smash the shell/shield into my face/eye. So it was heavy whatever it was.”

In a response to Kyle Caudill on Facebook, Alberson’s family reiterated that they do not know what hit him, “In all honesty, we have no idea. We aren’t keeping that info to ourselves for any reason, we genuinely have no clue what it was. We’ve guessed at lead or car debris but nothing hit the bars hard enough to mark them at all, no one saw it, and whatever it was didn’t land in the car. At this point your guess is as good as ours.”

As for how long he will be out, Alberson and his family shared it would be 6-8 weeks back on Sunday when they announced he would have his surgery on Thursday, “We’ve been officially told 6-8 weeks before we can return, and Garrett will likely have surgery this week. We don’t know what that means for the rest of the year, but we’ll be discussing with our team.”

A GoFundMe was created and has raised over $76,000 to help Garrett and his family “during this time and take of the financial weight off their shoulders.”

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