"I had it under control", he explained, "until the rear tires left the ground and the rpm shot up...when that happens, you just naturally lift!"
"I immediately stabbed back in it when rears touched," he explained,"but fuel had sloshed out all over the windshield from the bowl vents, and it wouldn't recover fast enough. That's just something you don't consider when you see all these guys slam back to earth and you wonder why they weren't back under power!"
"How bad is it hurt?"
"I took it back out on the street, it seems to drive Ok. The crossmember for the rack is bent up, and hit the pan, but it's not too bad...I'm going to run the next round!"
"You lost, why a next round?"
"It's kinda a round-robin thing...now I'm in the losers bracket, but the four of us have to runoff for positions 5 through 8."

He won the next two rounds and finished the evening in fifth, The damaged rack skipped a few teeth on the drive home.