Remember all those times you saw NASCAR race cars crash into the track jet dryer at high speed? Oh wait, you don’t because something this rat poop crazy hasn’t happened in the history of the sport. Juan Pablo Montoya hit the jet dryer truck during a yellow flag lap at the 2012 Daytona 500 which ended well past midnight on Tuesday. We’ve never seen anything like it and the only way we can relay the complete and utter awesomeness of it to you is through the video below. No one was seriously injured, other than the network television schedulers for Fox who have all suffered head injuries after passing out from frustrated exhaustion.
Somewhere, every guy who has ever crashed on a pace lap is fist pumping like a member of the Jersey Shore cast. Those dudes are all off the hook. Thanks JPM!
How many NASCAR drivers does it take to ignite a jet fuel fire? Just Juan… 😉
Shannon, that is friggin HILARIOUS!
Stolen>> Set to the “Red solo cup song” by Toby Keith. Big yellow truck, I blew you up, lets have a party.
Watching the drivers goof around during the red flag, it occurred to me: they’re so tired, they’re getting goofy. Man, what a long day!
I would like to point out, since everyone else is ready to dump all over Montoya, that the car broke and yanked suddenly to the right. He said so, his crew said so, and the commentators said so. Had it been driver error it would’ve spun in the direction of the track, or spun that way and then over-corrected back the other way. It very suddenly jumped away and to the right. It was a freak, one in a million accident that wouldn’t have happened if JPM’s car had broke anywhere else on the track.
I watched it on TV- that was some funny crap! Reminded me of the part of Days of Thunder when the crew chief tells Tom Cruise to hit the pacecar! JPM was a victim of breakage and thankfully is ok, but that crap was funny! (Also glad the jet truck driver is ok as well.)
JPM is going to catch hell for this. Oh well, if you can’t be good, be spectacular!
1) Definitely glad both people were able to walk away uninjured.
2) With all the safety measures recently instituted (car of tomorrow, safer barriers, moving the fuel pump) nobody thought to put the 200 gallons of jet fuel in a fuel cell?
3) Juan was so fast he lit up the track… ha, ha, ha, ha
What? no Ricky Bobby I’m on fire routine?
Please keep danica in nascar, open wheel will be more fun with only AJ Foyt throwing the temper tantrums. Which is funny because danica left, because she always blamed people for running into her causing her not to win races. So she switches teams to race with guys who bump, not run into her for a living. Public Safety warning, Camera On at all times Danica normal, when camera’s are off she won’t even give autographs to school children waiting by her garage for hours. Camera on she smiles and waves to kids, camera off she complains to staff to get the kids out of her way. Go daddy shouldn’t be her sponsor, something that flows weekly like ….spring water bottling,
I’m not a fan of hers either. Anyone else notice she crashed 3 times in three days?
Anyone else notice she was wrecked 3 times by other drivers? None of them were her fault. And one was her own teammate. But the haters hate on…
i just think shes a spoiled brat, although i am anxious to see what motorsport she will try next when she’s finished losing in nascar.
Hell it was his fault the jet dryer jumped out and got him I mean com on he does drive for TARGET
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