Watch This Insane Super Slow Motion Funny Car Explosion!


Watch This Insane Super Slow Motion Funny Car Explosion!

There have been an insane number of funny car explosions this year. And we’re not talking normal blower pops, we’re talking catastrophic explosions that destroy bodies, parts, and sometimes the chassis itself. Nobody has been immune to it it seems, and Cruz Pedregon certainly felt this one! And so did the carbon fiber body, which decided that it no longer wanted to be any part of the festivities during qualifying round 3 at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series in Virginia yesterday. Watch this video in slow motion a few times. I say a few because you will notice things each time you watch. One of my favorites is watching the caps and rotors come off the MSD Mags and then seeing them still spinning inside. It is amazing what this video captures. Watch and enjoy.

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times…Cruz Pedregon with a huge fireball Q4 at Virginia. The crew working feverishly to fix the car and replace the body.UPDATE: may have dropped a valve. Going to try to make Q4.

Posted by Ellen Eschenbacher on Saturday, June 9, 2018

 


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2 thoughts on “Watch This Insane Super Slow Motion Funny Car Explosion!

  1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    Surely it is time for funny cars to catch up with top fuelers and place the engine and transmission BEHIND the driver. Will it take the death of a driver in a debris-laden fireball to force this change?

    1. Matt Cramer

      That’s been tried before. Usually resulted in debris-laden fireballs from colliding with the wall.

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