200 MPH & No Chute?

[1320Video]

You may have seen it in my highlights when I was doing live coverage on Drag Week, but this was one of the craziest on board videos I've gotten yet!

Jeff Lutz lays down his 2nd 200MPH pass of the week and then the chutes fail to open!

Luckily this is Jeff's home track so he knew just how short the shut down was. After hitting the chute handle several times (and bending it) he layed on the brakes HARD, shaving off a good 1/4" of tread on one spot on his front passenger tire

The DVD will be shipping in a little over a month I hope.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7xOOOh89a8

[DanStokes]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

I need a clean pair of undies after just WATCHING that! Glad that everyone is OK.

Dan

[KeithTurk]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

Great video of a class act..... Simply a nice guy....

Car just amazes me how freaking stout it is and then drives 1000 miles to get to the tracks every day....

Epic

[DanStokes]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

I wondered what you were going to say about this. Clearly it wasn't on purpose and I'll wager it was fixed for the next run.

Dan

[BluLightning]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

Serious pucker factor there. :o

[Brian Lohnes]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

Gotta give HUGE thumbs up to the track safety crew too. That dude was there almost before the car stopped.

AWESOME driving job to haul that monster down with no air brakes.

[fahrenschnell]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

That sucks.....I have been there when your chute doesn't open, and I had 9/10 of a mile and it wasn't enough.

Seth

[TheSilverBuick]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

*whistle* Damn, I agree with Bob.

[oldsman496]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

Great vid. I got to climb all over that thing at Columbus, and man is it nicely done. and Mr. Lutz IS a nice guy...didn't know me from adam... and he bent my ear givin' me details about his ride.... nice guy.

[1320Video]

Re: 200 MPH & No Chute?

Great vid. I got to climb all over that thing at Columbus, and man is it nicely done. and Mr. Lutz IS a nice guy...didn't know me from adam... and he bent my ear givin' me details about his ride.... nice guy.

Agreed 100%, their whole family is awesome! The first time I met them was down in Orlando and my in car video setup was having audio issues, him and his son helped me re-soldier the mic wiring literally 5 minutes after meeting them. It was awesome to see them show up in '09? Can't wait to see what they have up their sleeves this year!

Gotta give HUGE thumbs up to the track safety crew too. That dude was there almost before the car stopped.

AWESOME driving job to haul that monster down with no air brakes.

I have to admit that they weren't there QUITE as quick as the video makes it appear, if you watch closely, the moped appears out of nowhere because I cut out about 30 seconds of nothingness from the video, but it was still pretty damn quick!