Jack man sent to hospital after pit-road mishap

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The jack man for Jeremy Mayfield's team was sent to a local hospital after being injured while working in the pits for another car during Thursday's first 150-mile qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway.

Officials tend to Kyle Roland.

Kyle Roland was taken to nearby Halifax Medical Center after suffering a reported shoulder injury while servicing the car of Kirk Shelmerdine. He was awake and alert. (watch video)

"Our thoughts and prayers go out with him," said Mayfield, who formed his team less than a month ago, and raced his way into Sunday's Daytona 500.

"Hopefully, he's OK. We'll be checking on him shortly. There again, I really don't know half the guys on our pit crew [Thursday], to be honest with you. I will get to know them because they did a great job and they're going to be with us quite a while."

Roland's injury forced Mayfield's team to use their own substitute jack man for the second of the two events. They borrowed Steve King, a member of Michael Waltrip's No. 55 team. Mayfield finished ninth in the race.