(PHOTOS BY CHARLES WICKAM) – Recently, Charles Wickam was shooting mud drag racing action at the Brazoria County Mud Drags in Texas. We’ll have all his awesome race coverage next week but as a bit of a teaser we thought that we’d show you this awesome crash sequence that he captured from the mud flinging start to the body panel flinging finish. While I don’t have a lot of first hand experience at the mud drags, I have always been a fan of the sport through seeing it on TV when the NMRA series was televised, through videos I watched as a kid, and through our coverage of various mud drag racing events here on BangShift. One of the things that I picked up on as a kid is that the transition from the pit to the solid ground at the end is the area when most of the weridness occurs. If something gets sideways in the mud and the driver lifts, the trucks usually get slows down by the slop pretty quick and that’s that. However when they get onto the hard packed ground, that is a different story.
In this case, Charles captured the whole run and the wild aftermath which shows the truck getting all kinds of out of shape and then vaulting into the sky, flipping end over end, and landing in a busted heap on the ground. The driver was OK but this was the ride of a lifetime. Isn’t it amazing how much speed these guys can make essentially hydroplaning over goopy, sloppy, nasty muck? Wheel speed is king here and that is what you see mud flying into the next county when these drivers drop the hammer on their powerful engines.
We’re not sure what transpired between the moment when the door fell off at the end of the pit and Charles picked up the madness with the truck on its nose and heading for the sky, but we do know that when all four wheels are off the ground, it doesn’t matter if you are the best driver ever, you are officially boned. This one looks like it hurt!
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE CHARLES’S COOL WRECKAGE SEQUENCE FROM THE MUD DRAGS (WE’RE GLAD THE DRIVER WAS OK!)
