Kevin Harvick shares his take on Bayley Currey's roof flying off at Atlanta

Kevin Harvick watched in awe last weekend at Atlanta when Bayley Currey lost his literal roof during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series event.

The development went viral, as Currey’s truck turned into a convertible before our very eyes. During the latest episode of Harvick Happy Hour, the former Cup Series champion elaborated on what was going through his mind when he saw that happen.

“I’ve never had my roof blow off,” Harvick revealed. “I’ve had my hood blow off over my window, and the hood fly off, or side window blow out, but I don’t know that I’ve ever seen somebody’s roof actually blow off.”

So it was a first for Harvick. Later in his show, the retired wheelman tried to make sense of how it all could’ve happened to Currey.

“I saw the pictures of the truck, and it looked like the left top corner of the whole windshield caved in, and then the window blew underneath of it, and then the whole roof came off, so I’m not sure on this one,” Harvick added. “… We’ve tried to manipulate everything on a race vehicle, so if the roof blew off, it wouldn’t surprise me, if it was intentional.”

Regardless, it was a disappointment for the Truck Series wheelman, as he had a fast car in Atlanta, but had to shut it down after his roof went flying away with the wind.

“We hit a piece of debris early and when that happened, it knocked the left side brace down and there’s so much turbulent air here, trucks moving around and being in the draft,” Currey told Sportsnaut, following the event. “It started flapping and flapping and it’s like a Coke can, you bend it back and forth, and it’s going to break. Basically, the windshield bed separated from the roof, all the braces broke and for about 20 laps, was running with the windshield running on the roll cage.

“I didn’t want to stop because we had a great truck. It was awesome. We could have won the race but it kept getting worse and worse and worse. I could feel the drag getting into the truck, could feel it getting colder inside the truck. It started whistling down the backstretch and I knew it coming.”

Hopefully no trucks or cars lose their roofs at any other races in the near future. It never happened to Kevin Harvick, but it’s evident it can happen to anyone on the track at any given moment.