Getting to race your car on SPEED TV’s popular Pass Time show must be a thrill. Knowing that you and the car you race every weekend will be on national television is really something. Unfortunately for the guy in the video, things go all to hell and he wrecks his junk HARD into the wall at South Georgia Motorsports Park.
The car is a Fox body Mustang that the owner says has a 302 in it with 146,000 miles on the rotating assembly. The motor is fed a 175hp shot of nitrous oxide and the gears are manually banged, which we approve of. As you will see, the car launches cleanly out of the gate and then things get weird by 300′ and finally go completely out of control at the eighth mile and the car crashed driver’s side nose first into the wall in the left lane. The front of the Mustang folds up and frankly, we were glad that the driver appeared to be unhurt. That is the kind of shot that can knock a guy out and send a car careening across the track under acceleration for a whopping and potentially fatal final impact.
Thankfully the driver can be seen moving and awake at the end of the clip. We really dug the nitrous purging through the antenna. That was bitchin’. The crash sucked for the driver and his car.
Press play below to see an episode of Pass Time go very, very wrong.
Flop ain’t got no kids.
he just did that mustang a huge favor! now maybe he will buy a chevy!
Yeah, at least 2 cars have hit a guard rail and a wild Jeep CJ (?) threw itself onto its side and slid after a wheelstand.
I believe the show has been out of production for some time, although just yesterday I saw one listed as first aired 5/16/2012.
Rumor has it the [original] hundredth episode has never aired due to foul play by a contestant. Friends of mine were drivers at the taping.
‘Wish Pass Time would go back into production… I think SPEED dropped the ball on this one. I believe Pass Time was [SPEED’s] highest-rated show at one time. Well over 100 episodes were made.
I briefly met Bret and Ken at a Pinks; All Out event. They are cool dudes.
For whatever it’s worth, the producer’s e-mail is [email protected].
The host’s first name is Brett.
…..um…I usually back off the throttle when my car starts to go ‘squirrel’
Watch at 1:43 on the in-car camera when she shifts. He jerks the wheel hard to the left trying to get some leverage on the 1-2. This is what started the whole shebang.
You see it all the time at the track “Man, that car has so much power it gets squirrely every time I shift!”
No, it’s because you use the wheel like a see saw.