The Best Plumber 604 Racing Series Presented by Longhorn Chassis announced that Greg Martin will appeal his two year suspension he received after ramming Matt Henderson’s car in the infield at I-75 Raceway back in May.

The series announced in a post to Facebook, “The Best Plumber 604 Racing Series Presented by Longhorn Chassis confirms that Greg ‘Skinny’ Martin has formally appealed his suspension. The appeal is currently under review, and a decision will be made following this weekend’s event at Smoky Mountain Speedway. An official decision will be announced once the process is complete.”

Martin was suspended by the series in May after he struck the parked vehicle of No. 17 Matt Henderson at I-75 Raceway. The series shared at the time, “Following a review of the events that took place during last night’s feature race, the Best Plumber 604 Racing Series has made the decision to suspend Greg Martin from all Best Plumber 604 Racing Series events for a minimum of 2 years.”

“Driver and crew safety is of the utmost importance to the Best Plumber 604 Racing Series. All participants are expected to conduct themselves in a manner that protects the safety of competitors, crews, officials, fans, and partner tracks,” it added. “The Best Plumber 604 Racing Series will continue to uphold the standards of conduct expected at all series events.”

Video of the incident was shared to Facebook by Cory Hedgecock that shows crew members working on Henderson’s car in the infield as Martin’s car approaches. Martin then drives into the side of Henderson’s car. The force of the impact throws the two crew members who were working on the opposite side of the vehicle to the ground. 

Based on Hedgecock’s post, his dad “shut the main power down so [Martin] didn’t hurt anyone else.”

Drone footage from the incident was also shared with StockCarReport.com.

Martin’s actions came after Henderson slid up the track coming out of turn 2 and slammed into him sending him spinning around.

Henderson addressed everything in a post to Facebook, “I bottomed out and hit Greg getting into turn one 3 laps after a restart. We had ran door to door for 3 laps so if my intention was to wreck him I wouldn’t have waited to do it for 3 laps. We hit as I bounced through the holes and it wrecked us. I hate that. Would rather have just got me.”

“If Greg wanted to fight me or tell me how unhappy he was or anything to that degree I’d have understood it. No one wants that. So I get it. When he chose to use his race car to hit mine in a crowded pit area and injured people, that I can’t understand. That is not something that should ever happen,” he added.

“I apologize to my team for everything that happened. I hate mine and Greg’s car was torn up in the on track stuff and then further once he rammed them together in the pit area,” he continued. “I am not asking for support of the on track incident or anyone to think that I blame him for that. I bottomed out and caused that accident. The running through the pits speeding to hit a car and assaulting guys with race cars has to be a hard line in the sand that we don’t allow to get crossed. Thankfully no one was injured far worse. Stuff like that can head a completely different direction rather we mean for it to or not.”

Michelle Jones Holt, the mother of TJ, one of Henderson’s crew member who was struck by Martin, shared the extent of his injuries. She wrote in a post to Facebook, “At 12:17am this morning I got the phone call…”Mom, I’m ok, but we are heading to Park West Hospital.” My son TJ and a close friend DJ were the two guys working on the 17 car when the 24 car rammed it. I jumped out of bed and got straight to the hospital.

“Luckily, TJ is ok, after CT of head and chest everything internally checked out ok. He has bruised ribs and 8 staples in his head but it could have been much worse. As far as I know DJ is ok too,” she added.

“I know racing but to ram a car with crew members working on it proves you are not emotionally mature enough for the sport. This could have been much worse! Thank you Jesus for watching over them,” she concluded.

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