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There was a guy about 5-6 years ago that was running a pretty hot Vette, ran like a high 4 eighth mile, was running at our local track.

The car came off strong and broke traction around the 60' mark, he lifted and then nailed it again. I recall thinking that was pretty dumb at the moment. It sure was.

The throttle hung and when he got to the stripe he pulled the chutes and they just sort of popped open and collapsed in a half second or so.

Instead of just hitting the kill switch, he simply held on as the car ran about 1/4 mile under full throttle. He hit the trees at the end right after he minced the hay bails and such. He lived but was air lifted. Never really heard anything after that. The Vette was hauled out of the woods in tiny pieces.

Still not sure why he didn't at least kill that motor. Maybe he was so spooked he froze up.

Every older racer at the track was shaking their head about how an experienced guy would try to get back on a busted run.



did he get knocked out? very possible.



Would have had to happen after the chutes came out at the eighth mile.

He was out after the trees no doubt.