Duster's trunk popped open on the way to the staging lanes and I didn't notice; it kept bouncing up and down, people were waving at me, I had no idea why so I just waved back. lol!

Semi finals, Thanksgiving Bracket nationals at Vegas last season. Whole load of family and friends are back home watching the live stream of the race.

Ran out of gas on the starting line ....... other guy goes -.001

I broke the beam, got pushed off the starting line, borrowed some gas for the final and won the race!

.00X to his .300, lift way early and coast out the back, go .001 under taking a train length.
.00X to his .100, Give it back by .0004

"Forgetting the hood pins after tech. Man those 6 bbl scoops catch alot of air!"
Best I've seen was a 69rr 6pak hood go about 100 ft in the air. To accomplish that I think the angle of the car has to be just right, to keep it in place till after the 330 mark

Ran out of gas on my first pass ever. I did manage to coast to a turn off road.

Dennis

Am I the only one to forget put the cap back on the fuel cell? Coming out of the burnout box and race gas is pouring out of the trunk, easy fix but cost the race.
JiK

Forgetting to put the car in 2nd and rolling through the pits and accidentally bumping the trans brake button and skidding for to feet to a stop. PowerGlide.

It was the first outing for my 'Cuda after a winter long updating process. New fuel system, new wiring, new tin work. I had to go through everything to update it. The night before the track rental we thrashed on it ALL night at my buddies house. We finally fired it at about 4:30 am. Car ran like crap. We messed with it for a while to find some Alum chips in the carb. I left for work that morning from the garage still in the same work clothes from the day before. My buddie says he was going to pull the carb, clean it up & trailer the car to track for me. I worked till 9:00 that morning and ment him at Norwalk for the track rental. Car is now running great. I pull up to the starting line for the first pass after the burn out, it back fires & dies. The next thing is see is flames rolling out of the Hemi scoop about 12" tall. I cranked it over hoping the flames would go out, nothing. The next thing I see is my buddy spraying the flames out through the hood scoop. We push it off the track and pull the hood off. The freshly detailed engine compartment, new carb. & everything now has a nice white blanket covering everything just like a fresh coat of snow on a brisk winter morning. I looked at my buddy & told him "Bleep this, I am going to sleep" A few hours he wakes me in the trailer & asks "Are you going to race this pile of bleep or do I have to?" I then made 3 passes back to back all 11.30's. They were with in a few thousands of each other.

Moral of the storey, DO NOT BLOW NEW FUEL LINES OUT WITH AIR. The shavings will just stick into the rubber and the fuel will wash them out. Flush the system with fuel before firing the car. Also a track clean up at a rental is not cheap coming out of your pocket.

Well lets see. I have traveled 1100 miles and forgot to turn the air bottle on...Or this one, when we had the Belvedere it had a stock gas tank. Left the fuel cap off once and got chased down by the firetruck all the way through the shut down area and return road. nothing exctiting thats about it for me.

Most recent one was at RT66 this year in my truck. Had a guy in a Vette welded up to the tree and covered a ton at 1000'. Started hossin' the gas on him at 1200'. Hossed 1 too many times and gave him the stripe back by .001.

Pretty much all of what you guys said except the GF in the trailer deal ..

Guilty of the hood pin brain fart, Hemi scoop dont need much to dissapear

being added to the list of cars to put oil on the track at indy fall ball.when you step out of the car and the first thing you see is 3 lobes of a camshaft you know it's bad.and i won the round,opponent never looked up i guess and broke out.needles to say i didn't make it back for the final round.

1993 Mopar Nationals in Indy. Drove the car to the track, had a partial bucket of water in the truck to clean with. Didn't remove the bucket before going up for time trials. After the launch, water was pouring out of the trunk extension drain plugs. A photography place was taking photos of all the race cars in action. I now have a huge photo of the car with water pouring onto the track.

Went to hit 4th, which should be a quick and easy straight back pull on the shifter, but after a night of beating on it, my shifter handle and adapter piece I made to fit the B-body pistol grip into the Dakota, had come a tad loose, so the handle was sliding on the shifter some.

Instead of 4th, I put it in 2nd, at about 75mph. skidded the tires a good 20-30 feet, RPM through the roof. coasted out the back end. down the return road, and straight for the gate. (it was getting late anyway, and the track was getting slick)

At a little track in Lawrenceburg, Tn (old U.S.43) about 1985, I do a burn out across the start line (OK to do at this short track), back up and stage carefully. The starter taps on the window and motions me to back up. Thats when I realized that I had staged with the back tires. I had a red helment on and my face matched it for a while.

Just about as bad, maybe worse, 2010 at Bristol, I started running two classes, 1/8 mile Pro and 1/4 mile Sportsman, same car/same day. First day I did this, I went to the finals in both classes (won 1/4 mile, red light away 1/8 mile). The next week I'm rollin' along through the rounds again and about rd 4 of the 1/4 mile race, I draw someone thats way quicker than me (me 10.90, him 9.90). Up until now all of my 1/4 mile races have been against slower or equal cars (everything either beside me or in front of me). I get near the 1/8 mile mark and look back, this guy is WAY behind and ain't gonna get there. I start whomp, whomp, whomp and my win light doesn't come on, then he BLOWS by me and his win light doesn't come either. At least for about 3 seconds, THEN his light comes on. I'm like, What the ???. All of a sudden, I realize what I did. The butt chewing I got that day didn't come anywhere close to the one I got about 3 weeks later, when I did it again. The 80 mile trip home that day seemed more like 180 miles.

At least I've never ran out of fuel on the track. Yet.

Brian Dunnigan

Was at Tri-State track, this was before I installed the fuel cell, stock tank and forgot to twist the fuel cap and dumped a couple gallons of race fuel at the starting line and down the track. Found the cap behind the plate after the ticket guy says i was dropping fluid.

First time going to the track, a couple good friends (you know who you are, lol)and I decided to tune the car the night before. We disassembled the carb for cleaning and put it back together. Car wouldn't idle and barely ran. Got to the track the next morning and discovered that we forgot to put the jets back in.

Randy

Yep, the gas deal. I am headed to the staging lanes to tech. My son says "we better put in some gas we don"t have enough to make a full pass" and I said " " I'm just going to tech and right back" got stuck in the lanes and had to make the pass. I remembered his words just as I crossed the traps as I coasted to the return road. I had to call him to bring the gas,I told him he was wrong that I did make it to the traps. He still gives me the razz about that. He drove the car back to the pits,made me walk. I told his mother,no help there !!! Fun times.