When The Wheels Fall Off: Watch Daniel Wilkerson’s Crazy Crash From The 2009 NHRA Memphis Event


When The Wheels Fall Off: Watch Daniel Wilkerson’s Crazy Crash From The 2009 NHRA Memphis Event

While the NHRA no longer races in Memphis, they did in 2009. Memphis was a place that had all the predictability of an overheated barrel of nitroglycerin. Between weather than ranged from hotter than the sun to wild and wacky things on the track, the Mid-South Nationals were always a show.

You are about see see Daniel Wilkerson’s bizarre and violent crash at the 2009 NHRA race held in Memphis. Daniel is of course Tim Wilkerson’s son and a capable funny car driver and tuner himself. For 2024 Daniel is getting a shot at something he has only dreamed of to this point in his life, being a full-time funny car driver. Tim will be tuning the car and Daniel will be at the wheel. It promises to be a potent combo and stuff like you are about to see will be far, far, far away from ever happening again.

In this case the debate centered around the root cause of the wreck. We could not get the answer as to whether one set of studs sheared and then the other or if perhaps a crew guy had not actually tightened the lug nuts down on the wheels.

You have to think that when the first tire parted company with the car Daniel felt it and when the second one left he knew he was boned. The way the car rotated is kind of amazing. The thing just turned 90-degrees left and piled itself into the wall face first. Daniel walked away but the car was completely and utterly mangled. So as you get to watch this and be a keyboard crew chief, what do you think happened?

Did the studs shear off or did someone forget to tighten and torque the lug nuts. In either event the ending was still the same ugly and violent one. Rough!

Press play below to see Daniel Wilkerson’s insane 2009 wreck in Memphis –


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