The 2016 US Nationals hold a lot of great memories for me and I’ll touch on some of those later this week but today we’re looking at the most painful thing I had to call all year and that was Buck Hess suffering a crash at the race. As you will hear me say in the video, during the immediate aftermath of the crash Hess was unsure what he was going to do with the car but being one of the most renowned body guy in the known universe, he did what we hoped he would. The car was fixed and actually got back on the track before the end of the year. I’ll be looking and working as good as new next season we’re sure.
Hess’s car is of course a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda that runs in the Super Stock A/Hemi category. During this year’s Mopar Hemi Challenge at Indy, Hess was looking like the odds on favorite to take the event as he was quick in qualifying and had been making great numbers all week long to that point.
Unfortunately on this run the engine suffered a mechanical failure. We’re not sure if a rod broke or what but the hemi that was powering the car so handily through the race no began to evacuate all of its fluids not to the track, right in front of the rear tires of Hess’s car. He did his best to save the thing but once he got into his own oil slick it was pretty well over as far as being abel to control the thing.
Physics took its course from that point on and left Hess disheartened but resolved. The car was fixed, Jason Line built another kill Hemi and the Kandy Kuda rides again.
