There’s an old saying that “even a bad day at the race track beats a good day at the office.” Under normal circumstances when we’re talking about a first round red light or a second round breakout, that saying is a right as rain. When we’re talking about the incident that Danny Tulestrup walked away from at the Fuchs Winternationals in Australia last weekend. As you will see, Tuelstrup’s dragster makes a clean (and fast!) pass down the strip and things get weird when he pulls the parachute and instead of it deploying the way it should it gets all tangled up and wadded into places it should not be. That causes the car to make an immediate left hand turn and head straight toward the wall at a very high rate of speed.

The truly good thing that helps Danny as impending doom is staring him in the fact is the fact that the nose of the dragster picks up just before striking the wall and actually lands on top of the barriers instead of smashing into them. On the negative side, this cases the car to go into a series of violent pencil rolls and we can only imagine the incredible violence of that inside the car. Because of the construction and design of modern dragsters, you’ll see Danny Tuelstrup climb out of this car as soon as it stops moving. It is an amazing testament to the technology of modern racing that this happened. This would have been a fatal crash decades ago but today, the driver get out more pissed off than hurt.

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE DANNY TUELSTRUP WALK AWAY FROM A TRULY NASTY DRAGSTER CRASH IN AUSTRALIA –