Corey Day, who drove a truck originally slated for Kyle Busch in Sunday’s NC Education Lottery 200, escaped injury in an airborne crash on Charlotte Motor Speedway’s backstretch after contact with Giovanni Ruggiero midway through the event. Day was sixth when the left rear of his truck collided with the right front of Ruggiero’s truck. The contact turned Day’s truck sideways and as it spun backwards, it became airborne. The truck then performed a flat spin to the left, lifting the truck’s front off the ground as well. Day’s truck crashed back down onto its wheels as it slammed into the inside wall. He then slid back across the track and into Mini Tyrrell’s path. Day and Tyrrell were eliminated from the race, finishing 35th and 34th, respectively. Ruggiero continued, recording a fifth-place finish in the race won by Layne Riggs. “The 17 (Ruggiero) just got a big run off of (turn) two,” Day said after walking from the infield care center. “He started to shade down, so I shaded with him. Then he shaded back up and that was it. My spotter didn’t do anything wrong. He told me he was there. I just thought I was clear and I wasn’t. “I just hate it for the (No.) 7 guys. This is exactly what I didn’t want to do today. I just wanted to deliver them a good run. I feel terrible.”NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series North Carolina Education Lottery 200Day was announced as the driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports truck Thursday afternoon after it became known that Busch was hospitalized with a severe illness. About 3 ½ hours after Day was announced as substituting for Busch, the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR released a statement that the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion had died. Two days later the Busch family said the medical evaluation provided them concluded it was severe pneumonia that progressed into sepsis that took the 41-year-old man’s life.