Watch NHRA Top Fuel Racer Terry McMillan Suffer The Most Massive Top Fuel Explosion We Have Ever Seen


Watch NHRA Top Fuel Racer Terry McMillan Suffer The Most Massive Top Fuel Explosion We Have Ever Seen

Anyone who attended the NHRA Mello Yello drag racing series event last weekend in Baytown, Texas at Royal Purple Raceway came away with some amazing stories. There was wild weather, insane action, wreckage, and what could be one of the largest, most violent top fuel explosions in history. Terry McMillan was minding his business and driving 300mph when all of a sudden his Amalie Oil sponsored dragster exploded in incredible fashion, launching a massive fireball, launching the blower, and ending up into the concrete wall, destroying the car and the chassis. All that sounds well and good but a deeper look will reveal something even more incredible about this one.

The explosions was so violent that it actually broke the blower free of the engine and the restraints that were supposed to keep it (at least loosely) tethered to the block. You will see the blower literally fly off the engine but the fuel lines actually hold onto the blower and injector hat. That’s good, right? Wrong. As the energy dissipates and the blower is no longer trying to rip the fuel lines off, it falls back down…onto the rear tire.

Within milliseconds the rear tire shreds, the car drives itself into the wall and the chassis is reduced to a very long pile of twisted tubing. The car was bent into an S-shape from the images that we have seen. Terry McMillan was fine and got out of the car under his own power.

We love Terry and his 2016 season is off to the best start he has ever had in his career. This certainly puts a damper on the weekend but the reality is that they have a chassis coming from DSR to replace their mangled race car and hopefully by Atlanta they’ll have figured out just what caused his top fuel dragster to turn into a rolling pyrotechnics display.

Watch Terry McMillan suffer an immeasurably huge top fuel explosion in Houston –


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4 thoughts on “Watch NHRA Top Fuel Racer Terry McMillan Suffer The Most Massive Top Fuel Explosion We Have Ever Seen

  1. Chevy Hatin' Mad Geordie

    If it wasn’t for the great Don Garlits introducing rear-engined dragsters this would have been a fatal incident as nobody could have survived such an explosion right in front of then. That and the sheer strength and flexibility of the chassis made this just a mere inconvenience of rebuilding the car and fitting a new motor. Mr Garlits I salute you!

      1. malc

        “This is a Top Fuel explosion!”

        Took their time getting an extinguisher on the fire…

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