Drag strips are generally leery about letting people shoot photos on the top end of the track. Just about every experienced photographer that has shot big end photos can tell you a harrowing story of nearly being swept up by an errant parachute, dodging parts, and seeing some crazy wreckage up close and personal. The dude in this video is incredibly luck to be alive and after you watch this video and see just how close he came to literally losing his head, you’ll agree.
Filmed at Milan Dragway by BS fan Alan Ginter, the video shows two doorslammers heading down the strip. You want to pay close attention to the fox-bodied Mustang because that’s the one that wrecks hard, loses the hood, and nearly kills the photog. The dude reacts as quickly as possible, but there’s nothing other than sheer luck that prevented a gruesome and potentially fatal injury here.
Long story short, if you plan on shooting top end photos at the strip and stand by the wall, be on your toes. You never know what’s coming in the next pass!
Thanks to Alan Ginter for the tip!
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE A PHOTOGRAPHER ESCAPE DEATH BY INCHES – THE FLYING HOOD OF DOOM!
Wow, wow, wow! Watch the video and listen to the track announcer. Wow, wow, wow.
Wow he lost it, wow wow wow wow wow, he lost it, wow wow wow wow, lost it, wow wow
Okay, so my little scare at TVRP this weekend was nothing after watching this video. It’s also the reason I only shoot top end stuff from a LONG ways away with a lens that keeps me safe. This guy dodging a hood makes me getting covered with fiberglass shrapnel on Saturday seem pretty lame. I think it was a WOW moment for the announcer though. LOL!
Just goes to show you can’t fix stupid, as evidenced by a photographer this far down track.
Wow ! That announcer is enough to make someone want to drive into a wall ! Wow ! Wow ! The photographer was very lucky !
Wow! Wow! Wow! Too bad that wasn’t the announcer downrange. Good lord.
this is the reason why you should always listen to your mother, and make sure you have clean underwear, cause the photographer has lumps, and stains in his
Wow Wow Wow……close call, and I think Lohnes needs to start an announcer school. And this guy needs to be the first to enroll.
At Great Lakes Dragaway a photographer at the top end was decapitated by parts from a Pro Mod car. No photogs allowed down there now, a rule I won’t be questioning.
I don’t know what’s more painful?…….the hit into the wall, the shrapnel from the exploding and flying hood?….or having to listen to that aweful announcing. glad NHRA didn’t choose him as one of the 4 new voices this year. The call of that race is literally painful listen too…….
From a long way away…
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The photographer was very lucky. The announcer whas very annoying.
Drag Race, Drag Race its gonna go down, (and that hoods gonna go up!) WOW WOW WOW. Very lucky camera guy.WOW