Whoops: Finding The Right Gear Is Important For A Good Launch, As This Corvette Will Now Demonstrate!


Whoops: Finding The Right Gear Is Important For A Good Launch, As This Corvette Will Now Demonstrate!

Do you have a pattern for every time you line up for a race? If not, you should: check your belts, check your gauges, roll in for a burnout. Check your belts, check your gauges, check your shifter, then stage and prepare to have fun. That second checklist is vital, especially if you had to…oh, we don’t know…back up after your burnout. Why is that such a big deal? Because YouTube is filled with videos just like this one, where the driver forgot that the last selected gear was “reverse” and went balls-out at the launch, scaring the hell out of himself, track crews, and anybody close enough to suddenly find themselves in a danger zone.

This video comes to us from Urban Hillbilly Videos and is straight from the Coffeyville Street Drags. The GTO is being beat on like a rented mule, if the rev limiter has anything to say about it, and the rough-and-ready tunnel-rammed Corvette looks like it’s done this gig a thousand times. You can read for yourself in the video clip what happens next, or you could hit play and see and hear what happens next. Don’t be that guy!


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6 thoughts on “Whoops: Finding The Right Gear Is Important For A Good Launch, As This Corvette Will Now Demonstrate!

  1. Loren

    Gotta love this era where doing a move like that gets you world fame forever, not just a few snickers in town for a month.

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