Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Practical Application: Hydrolocking An Engine Under Load
It’s Engine 101: air compresses, water does not. If you are unlucky enough to have water go down the gullet of your engine and into the bores, your best hope in hell is that you shut the engine...
Watch Two Russian Guys Miss Certain Death By Inches While Stranded On A Highway – Incredible!
There is a reason why it is dangerous to break down on the highway. There is a reason why if you get stranded on a highway you are supposed to stay in your car. That reason is that it is an...
Goofy Video: Little Car Makes a Big Mess And Nearly Kills Driver In The Process
For starters, we have no idea what country this video was filmed in but we know it is the land that torque forgot. The brain trust involved has a tiny little car hooked up with a chain or some sort...
Carnage Report: Just How Jacked Up Was Cleetus’s Dale Truck On RMRW 2.0?
If you were following along on the live stream of Rocky Mountain Race Week 2.0, you probably figured out in a hurry that the “Dale Truck”, Cleetus’s Earnhardt-liveried Chevrolet...
Big Wrecks and Bigger Saves: Here’s A Look At The Wildest Runs In Drag Racing Through 2020…So Far
While 2020 put the squash on drag racing during the early Spring, the sport has really been very active since about May right up until the present. There’s racing happening on all levels across...
A Bad Night At The Pull: Watch The Weight Box Fail On This Sled And The Tractor Head Off The End At Speed
To me the most terrifying thing that can happen if you are a puller is the scenario that comes to pass here. At a small pulling course in Pennsylvania last weekend a driver and team experienced...
Astonishing Carnage: Watch As The Industrial Injection Master Shredder Truck Explodes In Flaming Fury
When you take all the turbochargers, all the fuel, and all the nitrous and use them to make nearly 3,000 wheel horsepower in a full-race Cummins diesel engine, sometimes things go wrong. We have...
Bad, Bad Day: Watch As This Cruise Ship Swamps A Tugboat!
One of the many omens that have become part of the legend of the RMS Titanic involves it’s near-miss with the SS City of New York when the doomed ocean liner was leaving Southampton,...
Flying Caddy! Watch This Backyard Daredevil Launch A 1990s Eldorado – Lands Like A Ton Of Bricks!
I actually really like 1992-2002 Cadillac Eldorados. I like the way they look, I like the interior appointments, I like the way they drive (for a gigantic front-driver, they aren’t too bad) and...
Classic YouTube: Launching A Citroen 2CV Seventy-Five Feet Off Of A Sand Dune
Twenty-nine horsepower is the maximum any Citroen 2CV-based vehicle ever had. Twenty-nine. That means that if you stick with power ratings, a 2CV can compare with the likes of an upper-end riding...
Gonna Feel That In The Morning: Watch As Brett Ghedina’s Honda CBR Drag Bike Launches Into The Sky!
Count Brett Ghedina’s wild ride at the Maximum Thrust Grand Final race at Perth Motorplex in Kwinana, Australia as quite possibly the shortest drag bike run in history. Ghedina was preparing...
A Pair of Pro Mod Wild Rides From Indy: Kris Thorne and Steve Matusek Walked Away From Insane Crashes
The 66th running of the Denso Spark Plugs NHRA US Nationals was full of the same crazy stories, awesome runs, and big time performances that the race has delivered through its storied history. In the...
After Action Review: Randy Pobst Reviews His Pikes Peak Hillclimb Tesla Wreck
Randy Pobst is one of the most chill pro racers I’ve ever met. He’s as friendly and as chatty as he seems to be in person, he’s got a great resume as a wheelman, and as it goes with...
Video: Harley Plus Nitrous = Human Torch!
When a car has a manifold backfire at the drags, things can go from bad to flamingly awful in milliseconds. When a Harley has a massive backfire while running on a chassis dyno, the rider of the...