Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
The Smell Of Defeat…And Expensive Parts: Clutch Burnouts For Days In Ohio!
(Words: Kevin Brown) Every year tens of thousands of people gather in Columbus, Ohio, to partake in one of the largest car shows in the county, and every year that show has an event dedicated purely...
Look Out Below: This Mitsubishi 380 Is The Celebration Centerpiece…And Anvils Are Involved!
YouTube is a weird beast. You make videos, you hope that people will follow your work, you hope that you can monetize those videos via ad revenue, and when you reach milestones, you do something...
Why Safety Matters: Watch As Ken Block And Alex Gelsomino Extract From A Burning Escort Cosworth RS
We constantly harp on being safe and being prepared if you are wanting to get behind the wheel and go do anything. From just something simple like putting on a seatbelt to making sure your race car...
Classic YouTube: LARC-LX vs. NSU Behind The Lane Motor Museum
Sixty-two and a half feet long, twenty-six and a half feet wide, standing at a staggering nineteen feet, six inches tall and weighing in at an ungodly one hundred tons even, it’s the LARC-LX,...
Found The Fuse! This Pontiac Tempest Throws A Temper Tantrum And Breaks Heavily!
In racing, you need to have a “fuse”. That is the part of the power pathway between the engine and the tires that is going to give up first when the insane amount of forces being exerted...
A Lesson In Sportsmanship: Checking On The Other Guy After A Big Crash
Sportsmanship is a virtue that tends to get lost in translation when it comes to racing. To the outside perspective, the individuals in the machines are rivals and are locked in a kind of combat...
Calm Down, Turbo: This Mazda RX-3 Got Way Too Excited And Flipped (onto) It’s Lid!
Small car, short wheelbase, big power always equates to “twitchy” being used as an adjective to describe the handling characteristics. The more power applied, the more insane the handling...
Your Day Isn’t Today: Racing Mishaps From All Over The World!
Drivers take all of the risk when they choose to race. It doesn’t matter if you are pro, semi-pro or it’s your first lap or run down the strip…it’s all on you when you suit...
Doing It Wrong Video: Watch This Cackling Funny Car Throw The Rods Out And Put On A Flame Show
Now, this is both a scary example and a valuable lesson regarding stuff that burns nitro. The scary example part is when the engine barfs the rods out the bottom and throws fire all over the place...
The Don’t Cringe Challenge: Check Out These Saves And Near Misses From Urban Hillbilly Video!
Don’t you love it when someone goes on and on about how easy drag racing is? Look…just because there isn’t a corner or two to deal with does not mean that everything is a walk in...
Brutality: Watch How Much Abuse A Jeep Grand Cherokee Can Take Before It Dies
When the Jeep Grand Cherokee debuted in the early 1990s, I though it was awesome…and many other people did too. Nevermind Bob Lutz driving one through plate glass in Detroit to announce...
Crazy Video, Crazier Story: Michigan Circle Track Worker Loses Foot In Tractor Incident – Tractor Runs Free On Circle Track
This is one of those stories that will really make you cringe. For starters, we are glad that the man involved will be OK, if not completely intact. While details about how this whole mess got...
Not Quite The Holiday Road: Caravan Racing In Britain Is Pure Mayhem!
It’s not like regular short-track amateur racing is dangerous enough. Everybody is looking out for Number One and only Number One, and everybody else can either pack it up and go home or...
