Ok, I'll bite:

My opinion as someone who has raced for 30 years, and watched drag racing for 40, I have aborted plenty of runs, and never crashed. I've seen this same accident a thousand times, from 12 second bracket cars to 4 second top fuel funny cars. We all have it beat into our heads from the first time we visit the track, that crossing the center line is BAD. Because of this everyone acts as though it's an unbreakable barrier, and limit themselves to half the track to try and save the car from destruction, that darn yellow paint stripe has sent so many cars back into their own lane's wall it's not even funny!

That is a quick, hard leaving car on a sketchy track. I'd guess the driver has had to drive it through the first 100 feet on many occasions, if he had driven it a car width into the other lane, he may have saved it, or he may be paying to fix a chevelle right now, hard to tell from the angle of the video.

Good luck with the repairs, Mike.