Knoxville Regular McKenna Hasse Recovering After Violent Sprint Car Crash

In the first lap of the first heat of Hard Knox Qualifying Night at Knoxville Raceway Friday night, local sprint car driver McKenna Hasse flipped into the wall, spun, and landed hard back onto the dirt's surface. Hasse was carefully removed from the sprint car since she's had a history of concussions in her decade-plus-long career and is recovering at a local Knoxville hospital.

Hasse hit the right rear of the No. 24 sprint piloted by Terry McCarl, entering turn one. Her sprint went cage-first into the wall and then smashed back into the race track. Hasse was transferred to a local hospital after being treated in the infield, it was falsy reported last night that Hasse returned. Her iPhone is currently missing and reported to be at the track, and the family has offered a reward if someone at the track finds it and turns it in. The track chaplain Troy Miller late Saturday afternoon.

Haase is still at Knoxville Hospital for further evaluation. She would've been transferred to Des Moines, but both trauma centers in the metropolitan were at capacity as of Saturday morning. Currently, she's known to have pneumothorax of the lungs, rips in her mouth and tongue, and a bruised body, her mom Kelly Ann shared via Facebook.

Haase's mother updated the community shortly after 11:30 local time that the Pneumothorax, or whole in the lung, has grown bigger between scans, and the next scan will be at midnight.

The 63rd running of the Knoxville Nationals will conclude tonight with NASCAR's Kyle Larson on the pole as he defends his 2023 championship and attempts to win the Sprint Car Crown Jewel event for the third time in four years.

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