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It's about 2AM...just got home from announcing a drag race.
Weirdest incident I've ever seen...ever.
Blown alky dragster...local guy, nice car.
He BACKED OVER and altered that was behind him in line at the top of the staging lanes. Something happened with the transmission in the digger. I saw him thrashing about in the cockpit trying to yank on something, then the car made a slight move backward, then it really went backward.
The altered was positioned behind the dragster but slightly offset so as the dragster came back the wheelie bar missed the altered but the big ass rear tire climbed the front canard and started up the body (This altered has real angular bodywork...it's like a door stop)The huge tire hit the motor, jumped up on the blower hat and continued on a direct path toward the drivers' compartment, where obviously, the driver was. I thought I was going to see someone get killed.
The tire climbed the outside bar of the drivers' hoop and because of the steep angle of that bar, it pitched the car into this bizarre pirouette which ended with the dragster laying upside down (and still running) on the ground, with methanol pouring out of the fuel tank vent in the front of the car.
Amazingly, no one was hurt aside from the altered drivers' hands, which he put up against the tire in a feeble attempt to keep himself from getting killed.
I've seen plenty of racers back into each other, but I have NEVER seen a car climb all the way up on another and then flip off onto the ground. This is a 250 inch wheelbase dragster, a really nice piece.
I hope some photos or video surface from this because it's a series of bizarre events that led up to one of the weirdest things I have ever seen.
I had to tell someone this story because frankly, even I don't believe I saw it happen.
Brian
Weirdest incident I've ever seen...ever.
Blown alky dragster...local guy, nice car.
He BACKED OVER and altered that was behind him in line at the top of the staging lanes. Something happened with the transmission in the digger. I saw him thrashing about in the cockpit trying to yank on something, then the car made a slight move backward, then it really went backward.
The altered was positioned behind the dragster but slightly offset so as the dragster came back the wheelie bar missed the altered but the big ass rear tire climbed the front canard and started up the body (This altered has real angular bodywork...it's like a door stop)The huge tire hit the motor, jumped up on the blower hat and continued on a direct path toward the drivers' compartment, where obviously, the driver was. I thought I was going to see someone get killed.
The tire climbed the outside bar of the drivers' hoop and because of the steep angle of that bar, it pitched the car into this bizarre pirouette which ended with the dragster laying upside down (and still running) on the ground, with methanol pouring out of the fuel tank vent in the front of the car.
Amazingly, no one was hurt aside from the altered drivers' hands, which he put up against the tire in a feeble attempt to keep himself from getting killed.
I've seen plenty of racers back into each other, but I have NEVER seen a car climb all the way up on another and then flip off onto the ground. This is a 250 inch wheelbase dragster, a really nice piece.
I hope some photos or video surface from this because it's a series of bizarre events that led up to one of the weirdest things I have ever seen.
I had to tell someone this story because frankly, even I don't believe I saw it happen.
Brian
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