THIS is why there is safety equipment 56K warning
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THIS is why there is safety equipment 56K warning
So I went to the Mustang Day at Ubly Dragway today (my times weren't as quick as I hoped - need to talk with you Boss on the 27th, the car did feel better though).
Imade 2 runs and decided to go get my slips to see how the changes (new LCA"s this morning) affected things - when I heard a "bad sound" and saw a car IN THE AIR over the top of a semi trailer between me and the track. Saw it hit the ground and bounce back up again and do an end over end. The guy had a supercharged Tbird (around 1988 model) - he got sideways, never got out of it according to a person standing there, hit the guard rail, jumped it, then started to go end over end through the grass - he hit within 10 feet of the cars and people watching and luckily flipped back toward the track.
Walked away with a bandaid on his forehead - lucky for him he had a full cage in the car.
Hit and jumped the rail:
Hit the ground front end, back end, etc:
I decided NOT to tell my wife about this one! One of his rear view mirrors came off with such force it hit a car parked back away from the fence.
Imade 2 runs and decided to go get my slips to see how the changes (new LCA"s this morning) affected things - when I heard a "bad sound" and saw a car IN THE AIR over the top of a semi trailer between me and the track. Saw it hit the ground and bounce back up again and do an end over end. The guy had a supercharged Tbird (around 1988 model) - he got sideways, never got out of it according to a person standing there, hit the guard rail, jumped it, then started to go end over end through the grass - he hit within 10 feet of the cars and people watching and luckily flipped back toward the track.
Walked away with a bandaid on his forehead - lucky for him he had a full cage in the car.
Hit and jumped the rail:
Hit the ground front end, back end, etc:
I decided NOT to tell my wife about this one! One of his rear view mirrors came off with such force it hit a car parked back away from the fence.
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RE: THIS is why there is safety equipment 56K warning
At least at the track you have fire/ems RIGHT THERE for a 15 second response time, if that. And those wood/metal gaurd rails suck for drag strips, I feel so much safer running on a track with concrete barriers
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RE: THIS is why there is safety equipment 56K warning
Roll cage for the life save! makes me wanna put one in my car just to drive on I80 lol, i feel bad for the guy looks like it WAS a nice car hopefully he can salvage the go-fast bits and build another car, cause once you go 10s... you never go back [8D]
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Video of the crash at Ubly
A video of the crash was posted on You Tube, here is a link
Just noticed that the link to "you tube" wasn't showing for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hShtC9vW_o
Just noticed that the link to "you tube" wasn't showing for some reason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hShtC9vW_o
