Invisible Fire Video: A Wild Methanol Fire in the Pits at the 1981 Indy 500

Invisible Fire Video: A Wild Methanol Fire in the Pits at the 1981 Indy 500

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 29, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  4 comments

Methanol makes for one hell of a race fuel. Engines can make big power and run cooler, the fuel works as a natural intercooler for boosted applications, and in naturally aspirated mills, you can run compression galore with far less chance of detonation. There are a couple drawbacks though and one of them is the [...]

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Wreck Video: When Co-Driver Indecision Causes Rally Havoc

Wreck Video: When Co-Driver Indecision Causes Rally Havoc

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 29, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

This video is from the Targa Tasmania, a race three times as wild as the name would suggest. You’ll see what happens when a codriver and driver lose communication for only just a half a second. This car gets some serious hang time, and the landing is not pillow soft. Make sure to wait for [...]

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Video: Baja Off-Road Action From The San Felipe 250 That Shows A Different Side Of Baja

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 28, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  2 comments

We are all used to seeing Trophy Trucks flying over whoops, and throwing big rooster tails of dust as they haul ass through Baja for the San Felipe 250, Baja 500, or Baja 1000. And we’re used to seeing the booby traps and crazy stunts that fans will perform in order to either crash vehicles [...]

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Insane Wreckage Video: Two Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Truck Get Into a Dog Fight And Both Lose!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 21, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

We’ve showed you some off the wall crashes from the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series before but this is the capper. Racers Casey Currie amd RJ Anderson get into one another while flying through the air in their trucks and land with violent consequences. Trucks tumble, endo, and eventually end up on top of [...]

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Wreckage Video: Wayne Mellinger’s Nostalgia Nitro Funny Car Crash From The 2013 March Meet

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 15, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  3 comments

Les Mayhew, the dude who creates all of the totally awesome NitroAmerica videos has begun to release some of this footage from the 2013 March Meet. His first video from the race is a look at Wayne Mellinger’s scary wall slapping hit during the qualifying of nostalgia nitro funny cars on Saturday. Wayne and the [...]

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Wild Video: Two Guys Crash A Car At A Polish Rally And A Tree Nearly Skewers Them – Inches From Death!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 14, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  4 comments

This is a wild video that we found taken in-car at a Polish rally. It is obviously not recent because the trees are green and the weather seems to indicate that is isn’t winter time. Rally wreck videos are always crazy because you never know what the car is going to smash into. Maybe it [...]

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VIDEO: Blown Altered Catches Flight At March Meet 2013. No Really It Gets All 4 Off At The Hit!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 13, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  1 comments

When this happened right before our eyes during our LIVE broadcast of the 2013 March Meet at Famoso’s famed Auto Club Famoso Raceway, we couldn’t believe our eyes. It’s not that we hadn’t seen cars do such big wheelstands that they got all four wheels off the ground, but the fact that it was a [...]

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Video: What It’s Like To Be The Driver Of An Exploding Front Engine Top Fuel Car – Wild!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 12, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  4 comments

The boys on the crew of the Mr Boston nostalgia top fuel car had a rough go of it in Bakersfield last weekend. The car never did what they wanted it to do and ultimately they suffered a major league blower explosion that put a monkey wrench in their works. This video is cool because [...]

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Wreckage Videos: Some Flaming Wall Bangers From ADRL Rockingham – Major League Impacts!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 12, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  3 comments

While we were at the March Meet, some drag racing history was being made down in Rockingham, North Carolina. This was the first race of the new Kenny Nowling era of ADRL drag racing. By all accounts the track had a solid crowd and the racing was good. An inescapable fact with respect to big [...]

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Video: Where They Raced Episode 3: Part 1 The Road Races

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 6, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  3 comments

We are fully addicted to the “Where They Raced” video series now. Episode 3 is a two parter, and here is Part 1 for you to enjoy. Not only do we enjoy the hell out of each one, but we learn stuff too! This episode talks all about the Santa Monica Road Races, which happened [...]

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Carnage Video: Watch A Farmall 1206 Tractor Break In Half At A Tractor Pull!

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 6, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  7 comments

So as you can see by the lead photo, I’m not stretching the truth when I tell you that the tractor in this video (a mid-1960s Farmall 1206) is literally broken in half by the end of this video. The culprit? A flywheel explosion that is bizarre in its own right. As you will see, [...]

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Insane Video: New Zealand Jetsprint Boat Video With Wrecks And Some Absolutely Stunning In-Boat Footage

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 5, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  2 comments

One of the wildest motorsports in the world is jetsprint boat racing. These tiny boats have two guys in them, engines that make nearly 1,000hp and they run around what is essentially an aquatic autocross course. They accelerate, turn, and move like nothing else on Earth. These are boats with freaking roll cages. Read that [...]

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Incredible Video: Watch Two Six Second Drag Cars Come Feet From A Devastating Top End Wreck

Posted in CRASH & BURN March 5, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  0 comments

This is one of the more death-defying top end incidents that we’ve ever seen. In one lane is the bonafide six second Rafaelito Mazda RX-8 that’s powered by a turbocharged 13B rotary engine and in the other lane is a fourth gen Camaro with a pair of mondo turbos mounted front and center in the [...]

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Video: Crazy Saudi Bastards Try To Change A Tire On A Moving SUV. The Key Word Is Try!

Posted in CRASH & BURN February 25, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  14 comments

The Saudis take car stunts to new levels, and we’ve all seen them driving down highways on two wheels with dudes changing seats, climbing onto running boards, and all kinds of antics. But this is the first time we’ve seen them try to change a tire on what appears to be a Toyota SUV, while [...]

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Update: Watch Jere Etheridge’s Insane Mustang Flight At South Georgia Motorsports Park – Two Angles!

Posted in CRASH & BURN February 24, 2013  by  Brian Lohnes > >  12 comments

This is easily the craziest drag racing video we have seen in a very long time. The footage comes from the YouTube channel of ProLine Racing Engines and it features racer Jere Etheridge and his Mustang literally taking flight at the end of a run. It is amazing how long this thing stays standing in [...]

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Things You Don’t See Every Day: Video Of A Chevy Truck That Sticks The Landing, But The Russian Judge Still Boned Him

Posted in CRASH & BURN February 24, 2013  by  Chad Reynolds > >  2 comments

This has to be one of the most brutal truck jump landings since Travis Pastrana thought that backflipping a monster truck would be just like doing it on a motorcyle. Dumb ass. Anyway, despite sticking the landing, and then going for some incredible style points, including the arm out the window holding the door frame [...]

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