Just got email from my cousin, Vern Foyt, hit both walls at Brainerd in his Corvette, fortunately he isn't badly injured but he is very sore and had to go to er, car is a real mess as well.
Mick

Car before the run.

that car looks almost all stock...what happened...he blow a hose and has antifreeze in it?...or oil..

BIG OUCH......Glad he's OK

Rickster

I wasnt there but a good friend saw it. He said it hit so hard it wrecked the concrete barrier and they closed the track for the day until they got the barrier replaced. That really sucks! What happened.

So he found out racing rheumatism sucks

So did his 35 year old seatbelts fail or had he updated?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Not sure on the causes yet, He is 62 and is pretty sore, shook him up a bit and frightened the hell out of his wife and grandkids who were also there.
He hasn't raced in a long time but used to run a B/MP car nationally in the 70's after returning from vietnam.
Compared to the first message i received from his wife, very dramatic, the second one from him, played down the accident. He is a very hardy guy anyway.
Car has ran 12.81 at 110.
Mick

Best wish's to him and the Vett.

I hope he's OK...the Vette looks like it's a total write off.

Folks throw numbers and ET's around on this board like they are meaningless, it is easy to forget just how quick and fast one is really talking about. A twelve second car is plenty fast enough to get someone hurt real bad.

Sorry to hear that........Glad he's O.K. , but the car looks bad.
12 seconds is a pretty stout street car in reality.
I know there are much faster cars with tags on them , but if your sled is capable of 12's , you are significantly faster than 99.9% of the cars you pass.
Getting into trouble in one happens too.........typically after something broke , but the wallop is still pretty strong.

We visited them in 91 and he had the car then but no interest in racing at that time.
He's now retired, pulled the car out and stepped the motor up a little, i hope he doesn't go back into retirement again.
Mick

Glad to hear he is ok..

Good to hear he's alright. Everything else is just money.

Sorry for his misfortune. Hope he recovers soon

12 second car is rippin pretty good

Bummer... glad he wasnt hurt bad... being a 12 second
car he probably didnt have any roll bar or anything
and that makes it worse

Mick...Sorry to see this!! Glad he is ok..Did you ever hear how it happened?

it just goes to show,no matter how slow your car is anything can happen.i see so many guys w no helmet or they dont have it buckled.glad he,s ok,bummer bout his vet,.

I'm hoping he'll tell me when he finds out, his wife tells me he was apologising to people because they closed the track after the accident, she would like him to stop racing.
I know he's not a mopar racer but thanks for showing your concern.
Mick

I hate to see that happen to anybody. Glad hes okay but man that could have been much worse.