The SuperBird was owned and driven by Jack Werst, of Mr. 5&50 fame. It had a 484 inch Hemi, and a lead filled wing. It was built specifically to take out Ray Allen's Briggs Chevrolet SS/DA 454 Chevelle ragtop, another bogus combo. They were worried about the Chevelle getting into the eliminator, as it had been pretty successful. The idea was to take Allen early in class eliminations, and then purposely bulb to keep from going through tech as the class winner. Would of worked, too, but Allen got upset in the first round, so Jack just bulbed and it was over. The motor was then returned to Detroit, and the car never ran again, although it still exists.

As far as the neutral starts, they had been outlawed in 1967 after Dick Oldfield messed up the starting line at Bristol. Dave Wren found that "process" in testing, and before you know it, we all were doing it. Chrysler even showed up at Indy in 67 with a whole truckload of torqueflites specifically built for that, but we could not use them. There were big signs in the burnout box, "NO NEUTRAL STARTS".

I don't see how this relates to what happened on Monday, though.