If you choose to participate in no-prep drag racing, you are taking all of the risk of running on the dragstrip into your own hands. There isn’t any surface preparation to save your ass if you run out of talent, and the talent threshold is much thinner than before. Knowing your car and how capable it is is a big part of the equation. The other part of that equation is your experience and capability behind the wheel, and knowing what to do when it all goes wrong. Unfortunately, the owner of this brand-new Mustang missed something in all of that, because from the start to the end, this is bad. This S550 is packing one hell of a supercharger, but from what we can see in the video, either this Mustang wasn’t packing nearly enough tire in the back or the driver was just hammering the throttle, because the rear tires were spinning from the launch until the moment the nose was pointing at the wall and impact was imminent. And what an impact it was. buckling the nose up, deploying a ton of airbags and popping the car up into the air for a moment before it slammed back down onto the wall. The driver walked away, which is a good sign, but this pony’s days of running are absolutely done.
on the gas the whole way………..ran out of talent for sure……….no insurance claim here
Not sure if there was talent to start with. As Brain put it, it was bad start to finish. I would love to hear that convo if he does try to call insurance company. “So, one more time, what happened?”
That car snitched on him as soon as it happened because of Sirius.
4 wheelers on the move before he even hit the wall. They knew!!!
It can buff out.
Started as a drag race then switched to nascar
It looks like both tires were spinning as he came off the start line – he kept his foot in it – then the left tire continued to spin while the right tire caught some traction sending the car into an immediate left turn – and he still kept his foot in it. I conclude – driver error all the way. As soon as he realized he was just spinning his wheels off the start line and the other car was way ahead, he should have lifted and called it a day.
That’s sad. Not sure why he even stayed in it. He lost at the light.
“Life is tough, it’s even tougher when you’re stupid” John Wayne.
He’ll be learning his lesson every month, when he makes that payment on a totaled car.