“Street Outlaws” star Robin Roberts is on the mend following a hard impact with the guardrail Saturday as the “No Prep Kings” circuit visited the famed Rockingham Dragway in North Carolina. Roberts, from Smithville, Missouri, was racing opposite of Justin Swanstrom when his 1968 Pontiac Firebird made a move toward the centerline; as Roberts pulled the car back toward the center of the lane, it shot into the retaining wall, rendering him unconscious. The car continued on down the racetrack, bouncing off the opposite wall before coming to rest. Roberts was pulled from the car by emergency personnel and transported via helicopter to a hospital in Charlotte for treatment of his injuries.

Following several tense hours, Roberts’ team updated its fans via social media, assuring them Robin had suffered no life-threatening injuries. Roberts himself provided an update on Sunday, sharing that he had “no memory of the pass or anything until I woke up this morning in the hospital and [wife] Melody told me about it.” Roberts suffered three broken ribs, a concussion, and a collapsed lung in the incident. “I cannot wait to be home so I can relax. Home is where the heart is and where I am most comfortable,” he added.

“Shout out to RJ Race Cars for ensuring driver safety in every detail of the car, as well as Pilgrim Media and the track safety response team for handling a bad situation so well,” the team noted in its statement.

Roberts debuted his state-of-the-art new Firebird, built last year by the team at RJ Race Cars, at the Boise, Idaho event in August, and the incident no doubt left it in a bad way. RJ’s crew, however, is well versed in repairing race cars, and we expect to see it and Roberts back on the racetrack good as new in 2023.