Must of went brain dead and turned right with wheels in the air ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJ9NHPPywA&feature=player_embedded


In car

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kPq9SdUrVtw

ooooooops.

Yeah, oops is right. The tires don't get much traction in mid-air.

1 thing I noticed if you watch when he comes down he is in the left lane,so he over corrected & BAM! The in car cam looks like after he corrected he turned back to the left but that thing was just sliding.I just ran @ cecil sat. It hooks but is a bit tricky with the new surface.What I got out it was @ least the other driver didnt get taken out by that

He pretty clearly keeps the hammer down and grabs another gear when its spinning and basically on top of the center line. Decent pedal job in the air, driving after landing leaves something to be desired.

Looks like his front wheels are turned right while in the air. He lands and it goes right.

He was trying to turn in the air which was his big mistake.
I dont know what he was thinkin'
Keep steering wheel straight in the air and all would have been " A OK".

It look like the front wheels are straight in the first vid before it came down , It looked like to me that he came down across the center line and then proceeded to crash the car

This is not complicated. It appears from the outside view he has the wheels cut right when in the air and leaves it that way when it hits the ground. Guess what the tires hit the ground it turns.

Then watch the in car. Yep right on turns the wheel right in the air and never straightens up before hitting the ground.

It's a mistake none the less that is what happened.

Sorry to see anyone have a wreck.

the thing I notice is the RPMs went over 8k, so if it would have been a gen 3 hemi it would have smoaked some rod bearings

Wow...that made no sense at all. What a shame...

My 383 had to run a blue cobra jet on its first pass. We treed him but only saw the back end at the finish. MY car runs 6.80`s and go to you tube 2012 super cobra jet first pass down the track. He had added after market add ons after the bought it. Hard to beat Money, but we tried.

Silly Ford guy, You can't use front wheels as a rudder

J/K, hate to see anyone wreck

i cant believe he didnt say anything.... if it was me it would have had to been edited...

Way too many drivers just don't know when to lift. The instant you feel anything out of the ordinary, the run is junk. And now so is the car.

When you put an in-experienced driver in a car over his head that's often the result. Compound that with a spool and he has even less chance, because the spool ends up steering the car, often straight into the wall (sometimes several times). As expensive as they are, Detroit Lockers or locking diffs go a long way in being able to save a crossed up car, because you can actually steer the car once the diff unlocks. I've broke several axles (at the spline) and never even got out of the groove, running Detroit Lockers - try that with a spool.

Not trying to start a big whizzing match, just putting out a little info to consider when buying parts.

I don't know the circumstances that caused the problems with this run, but Steve is an experienced driver, having raced Super Gas and Super Comp for several years, and his current Mustang is one of the quickest and fastest cars in Comp Eliminater (twin Turbo), I believe I saw him run 6.40's at 220 at Indy 2 years ago. He is also the president of Aeromotive fuel systems and has been involved with drag racing for many years.