Pro Stock racer Vincent Nobile debuted a striking new paint scheme on his Mountainview Tire-backed Chevrolet Camaro, operated out of the Elite Motorsports camp (in fact, the very same car Erica Enders drove to the championship last season), at the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona this weekend, but unfortunately, it didn’t leave the Auto Club Raceway in quite as nice of a condition as it arrived.

As was seen on Sunday’s broadcast on FOX Sports 1, Nobile, while racing alongside Drew Skillman in the second round of Pro Stock eliminations, made a hard left turn at around the 100 foot mark, sending him shooting across the race track. As the FS1 crew later illustrated after the incident, Nobile had driven into severe tire shake, causing him to momentarily lose control of the car as it drove across the centerline toward Skillman and the opposing guardrail.

Luckily, Nobile regained his footing and managed to merely pancake the wall rather than strike it head-on or at a glancing angle, which would have done far more damage the race car. Alas, as one can see from the downtrack cameras, the side impact still did some hefty damage to the carbon fiber Camaro replica body, as the front fender on back to the quarter panel appear to have been flattened. That will leave chassis builder Rick Jones and his team with a lot of work ahead to get the car turned back around for the Carquest Auto Parts NHRA Nationals in Phoenix in two weeks.

Pro Stock drivers and their teams were still ironing out a number of new challenges with the electronic fuel injection combinations, from engine startup and burnout procedures to learning the chassis and shorter wheelie bar configurations. None of those factors would appear to have directly caused Nobile’s excursion, but with so many new variables to manage from the drivers seat, one can certainly understand that the drivers had far more going through their minds on a given run then in years past.