Castrol Raceway is an IHRA national event track located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We got tipped off to some crazy photos of a racer wrecking there in what looks to be a Top Sportsman entry in a truly scary top end crash. Our tipster said the driver, a man named Paul Glandon, spent the night in the hospital just to make sure he was ok.
Another painful part of the story was the info that this was a new car. Doing some totally amateur photo analysis we’re going to go out on a limb and say that a gust of wind caught the ‘chutes and lifted the rear of the car off the ground, however slightly, causing the wreck.
We’re coming to that conclusion for a couple reasons. The first is that the car is moving straight with the parachute out in the first photo, in the second photo we can see it coming across the track and the scoreboard is not that far behind the car. This tells us that we’re not looking at a late parachute deployment situation where the driver may have spike the brakes and lost the handle on the car. Wind catches parachutes easily and if it was a big gust, the light end of an already light drag car will be doing the Mary Poppins before the driver has any chance to react.
Hit the link below to see they whole photo sequence. It is crazy nuts! Skidmark Images gets the credit for the photos.
Click here to see an insane top end wreck sequence from Castol Raceway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Lots of fans watching Paul from Ottawa ont. Dan has lots of nephews watching