Category Archive: CRASH & BURN, Videos
Nasty Wreck Video: Armco Guardrails Amplify Another Bad Wreck Into Pure Catastrophe
There are dozens of videos on the internet showing crashes at drag strips with armco-style guardrails. Sometimes the guardrails keep the cars contained to the strip, but most times, like in this...
Instant Classic Carnage Video: If At First You Hit the Wall Don’t Try Again
Some videos are instant classics, this is one. Shot at Houston Motorsports Park by NitroArtVideo, it shows a fatally flawed Camaro making one hit on the starting line that results in him slapping the...
Sprint Carnage Video: A Winged Sprint Car Fights the Roughest Track in History…an Loses
Who knew qualifying could be so hazardous?! Chad’s notes: Wow, this sucks for this dude. If I didn’t know any better, I would say that the staff at Heartland Park Topeka must have prepped...
Explosion Video: Scary Footage of a Big Rig Tire Exploding on German Firefighters
If this video doesn’t make you cringe, we don’t know what will. The footage shows a team of (reportedly) German firefighters showing up on the scene of a burning trailer that was being...
More Vintage Carnage: The King and Marshall AA/FD Climbs the Stairway to Heaven!
We’re back again with more crazy video from Jim Knights at Lebanon Valley Dragway. On the same weekend of the insane Funny Car Wreck we showed you earlier, Ray Helger, driving the historic King...
Funny Car Wreckage: A Video Flip Book of a Flopper Burnout Gone Very Wrong
Driving a Funny Car of any significance is pretty serious business. Just because it doesn’t have a huge huffer, nitro running through the fuel system, or potential to run 300mph doesn’t...
Wild Carnage Video: Tony Kanaan Flies Over Helio Castroneves, Walks Away
Crazy stuff happens when open wheel race cars get together. Two of the best guys in the business of driving said open wheel cars are Tony Kanaan and Helio Castroneves. They had a violent encounter...
Surprise Ending Crash Video: Pay Attention to the Guy on the Motorcycle
Motorcycle “stunting” became a semi-big deal here in the US 5-10 years ago. I can remember announcing drag races and the motorcycle stunt riding “crew” would come out during...
KaBOOM Video: The Spectacular End to a Cummins Powered Dodge Pulling Truck
If truck pulling has an equivalent to cars like Larry Larson’s six second street legal Nova and other of that ilk, it’s the street legal pulling classes. With advancements in diesel...
Hard Landing Video: What Happens When the Wheelie Bar Breaks While Launching Your Fuel Altered
Our pal Kyle Loftis was at the World Fuel Altered Nationals in Eddyville, Iowa last weekend. The event normally draws some of the wildest short wheelbase, front engined, nitro burning iron that North...
One of the Greatest Wreck Videos Ever: 12-Minutes of Urban Hillbilly Drag Race Wreckage
Sean Melton and his crew at Urban Hillbilly Videos were really trailblazers in door car drag racing video coverage. They were there “before it was cool” and have been pumping out awesome...
Pro Mod Disaster Video: The Tindle/Cagle Uber Wreck
There are drag racing crashes and then there are drag racing CRASHES. This is the latter. The wreck involves the blown Mustang Pro Mod of Tim Tindle and the nitrous Camaro of Tori Cagle. From the...
Funny Video: Eight Minutes of Pace Car/Safety Car Fails
One of the great gearhead movie exchanges of all time went down between Robert Duval and Tom Cruise in, “Days of Thunder”. Duval tells Cruise to pull out on the track and hit the pace...
Big Fire Video: A Mustang Blows a Transmission Line and Lights Up Like a Roman Candle!
This video, shot at the currently dormant Gateway International Raceway just outside of St Louis does a great job of depicting the volatility of transmission fluid when it hits red hot exhaust parts!...