Fast Jack Beckman is one of the best funny car drivers in the business and his skills were on full display at the 2012 NHRA Finals in Pomona on Thursday as he suffered a nuclear level explosion on the top end of the track and managed to keep the car off the wall. He emerged from the car seemingly unharmed and raised his arms to let safety personnel know he was OK. This video was released by the NHRA on Thursday evening and it shows the boomer from multiple angles including in car, which is 100% wild. It looks like someone triggered a lump of C4 at about 1,000ft.
We’re glad that Jack is OK. He reads the site, hangs out in the chat during live broadcasts and ranks as one of our Funny Car heroes. This video is proof that large amounts of intestinal fortitude are required to drop the hammer on 8,000hp, especially when it is sitting in your lap and can do this on any given run.
PRESS PLAY TO SEE THE BIGGEST NITRO FUNNY CAR BOOMER IN A LONG TIME!
and boom goes the dynamite
DAMN!! Does it like it was another day at the office! Nice job keeping the car centered. Did he win that round?
He just gets out like nothing happened holy crap how did he manage to move with balls that heavy?
A piece of the car landed on our good friend Cade Poe….Cade is a junior dragster pilot….they took the piece from him in the pits….crew member told him….”Kid this isn’t a baseball game…you don’t get to keep the car”….lol….kind of messed up but Cade and his family were fine…
No the KID! should get to keep it,and signed too!
Great driving on Jack Beckman, however lousy impression for Cade from a “professional” race team. Jack should have signed the part or at least given him a t-shirt or something in trade.
Fast Jack rebounded from this and is now low qualifier at 4.025.