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Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, RACING & ACTION

Video: Danny Sullivan’s 1985 Spin and Win At The 1985 Indy 500 With Interviews and More

One of the most historically crazy moment from the history of the Indy 500 happened 34 years ago this weekend with Danny Sullivan’s famed “spin and win” move during the 1985 running...

Crazy Video: Danny Ongais Crash From The 1981 Indy 500 Has To Be Seen To Be Believed – He Was Racing Again Months Later

Yes, that is Danny Ongais sitting there, bent and broken, just ahead of the raging fire at the back of his decimated race car. The year was 1981 and the place was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The...

Door Slammed: Watch The Zombie Wagon Get Into The Side Of A Nova At Bradenton Motorsports Park

When it comes to drag racing craziness, we’re thankful that two car incidents are a relative rarity in the sport. Yes, we see them in videos like this but the reality is that seeing two cars...

Insane Video: Watch This Driver Literally Jump Another Car In A Flying Victory Of Incompetence

(By Greg Rourke) – Jumping vehicles over other vehicles has been a challenge almost as long as there have been vehicles. Here’s a new category…Bank Customer Jumps Innocent...

That Sounded Like It Hurt: Racing Crashes From The World Over!

Given the amount of videos that cater to the subject on YouTube, you have to wonder how many racing machines are actually taken out of commission each week in the name of motorsports. I certainly...

Dyno Catastrophe: Watch This Diesel Truck Explode And Burn At The Ultimate Callout Challenge

This is literally as bad as it gets. You are going to see the monstrously powerful DRD Diesel built pickup truck on the chassis dyno at the Ultimate Callout Challenge event in Indiana suffer a simply...

Wild Video: European Big Rig Wheelstander Performance Ends Badly

European showman and stunt driver Steve Murty is behind the wheel of his big Scammell truck wheelstander. This baby is nothing like the sprightly tube chassis wheel standers that we often see at drag...

Funny Car Chaos: Watch Ron Ooms Suffer A Bizarre Crash During A Burnout That Broke His Leg In Five Places

Now this is a weird one. During the Funny Car Chaos event at MoKan Dragway last weekend racer Ron Ooms was beginning a burnout in his beautiful Camaro bodied funny car when things went wrong in a way...

This Could Have Gone Better: Watch A Ford Pulling Truck Self Destruct During A Hook

There are certain things that happen in motorsports that no one sees coming. This was one of them for the guys who built and campaigned this cool Ford pulling truck. As you will see, this is a scene...

Dumb Fun Part 2: The Freaky Farm-Built Dually Is Back…And Crushing Cars!

A few weeks back we showed you a farm built truck that was using huge tires off of a piece of agricultural equipment, four foot wide wheel adapters, and a whole bunch of laughs to survive. The thing...

Cinge-fest: Here’s Three Minutes Of Doing It Wrong On The Chassis Dyno From Various Countries and Places

From stuck throttles to shredded tires, this look into the dark side of the chassis dyno experiences will certainly provide an eye widening look at what can happen when you are running your stuff at...

Oh, Boy: The 1994 Hydroplane Blowover Of The Oh Boy! Oberto Unlimited At Tri-Cities!

People like Mike Finnegan might disagree with me, but I genuinely do not understand the point of hauling ass on the water. A jet ski could be fun, sure…it’s the aquatic translation of a...

Wound Too Tight: One Overachieving Chevrolet Mud Romper!

We’re a sucker for a good, rowdy mud truck. It’s one of the few times where you can go foot-to-floor for a sustained amount of time while you’re out romping in the sloppy, soupy, or...

Gratuitous Violence: Ramming A Leopard Tank Through Cars At Speed

Here’s some information about the Leopard 2A4 tank: they’ve been around since 1979, weigh in at over sixty-eight tons and are powered by a MTU-sourced twin-turbo V-12 diesel good for...