Another bad one (wreck)
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06/09/14 11:57 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgH74NcRXf8Thirty year old Ben Bray is second generation drag racing royalty in Australia. His dad, Victor Bray is their country’s John Force. The guy is known in all corners and his career arc is much like Forces. Ben is not a guy who rode his dad’s coattails to success. The kid has earned his way and has proven himself to be a hard nosed and very successful in his own right. Today he lies in a hospital with a back injury, the second of his career. This is a serious hurting put on a guy who already went through the trauma of a fractured vertebrae in 2006 when the lift gate on a trailer failed, dropping the car he was in to the ground from a significant height. The way he struck the wall in this wreck, you knew it was going to hurt, but no one expected to hear that Bray had sustained bruised lungs, six broken ribs, and three broken vertebrae. Those are excruciating injuries…and Bray actually got himself out of the car and walked to an ambulance. The guy is a bad ass. Ben was racing in both Top Doorslammer and Factory Extreme at the 2014 Fuchs Winternationals. This class is full of pro stock style “import” cars running engines native to their body styles and turning elapsed times in the very, very low six second range. The car that Bray was in had a Nissan Altima body and a turbocharged four cylinder engine. As you will see, these cars are as nasty as any type of boosted doorslammer you can imagine and when you see what happened to Ben Bray you’ll understand that they’re just as unpredictable and dangerous. We surely hope that this is not the end for Ben Bray. If it is the end for Ben Bray in the driver’s seat, everyone else should try to get on his good side because if he goes all Al Billes on the Aussie Doorlsammer scene and becomes a full tilt tuner, the guys he turns wrenches for will be bad fast. We’re sending our best to Ben Bray after learning of his injuries. Here’s to hoping for a full recovery and a long career for Ben Bray.
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Re: Another bad one (wreck)
[Re: pittsburghracer]
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06/09/14 12:40 PM
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Going thru one myself I know how fast things can happen and I was going slow compared to some of these guys. A lot happens in a very short time. 
Didn't know you had a wreck on the race track.
I had a bad one during round 1 at the June 2003 pontiac nationals in Columbus Ohio. Totally destroyed my car at the finish line.
Mike Bowen rebuilt my chassis and I rebuilt the car and I was back on the track to meet my sponsors commitments in 9 weeks . Very embarrassing since it was on TV also.
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Re: Another bad one (wreck)
[Re: Mr.Yuck]
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06/09/14 02:32 PM
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Another bad one from the same track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBNCXpQzV_k#t=35There’s an old saying that “even a bad day at the race track beats a good day at the office.” Under normal circumstances when we’re talking about a first round red light or a second round breakout, that saying is a right as rain. When we’re talking about the incident that Danny Tulestrup walked away from at the Fuchs Winternationals in Australia last weekend. As you will see, Tuelstrup’s dragster makes a clean (and fast!) pass down the strip and things get weird when he pulls the parachute and instead of it deploying the way it should it gets all tangled up and wadded into places it should not be. That causes the car to make an immediate left hand turn and head straight toward the wall at a very high rate of speed. The truly good thing that helps Danny as impending doom is staring him in the fact is the fact that the nose of the dragster picks up just before striking the wall and actually lands on top of the barriers instead of smashing into them. On the negative side, this cases the car to go into a series of violent pencil rolls and we can only imagine the incredible violence of that inside the car. Because of the construction and design of modern dragsters, you’ll see Danny Tuelstrup climb out of this car as soon as it stops moving. It is an amazing testament to the technology of modern racing that this happened. This would have been a fatal crash decades ago but today, the driver get out more pissed off than hurt.
1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.42@138.27
Livin and lovin life one day at a time
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Re: Another bad one (wreck)
[Re: pittsburghracer]
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06/12/14 12:24 PM
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BobR
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Another bad one from the same track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBNCXpQzV_k#t=35
There’s an old saying that “even a bad day at the race track beats a good day at the office.” Under normal circumstances when we’re talking about a first round red light or a second round breakout, that saying is a right as rain. When we’re talking about the incident that Danny Tulestrup walked away from at the Fuchs Winternationals in Australia last weekend. As you will see, Tuelstrup’s dragster makes a clean (and fast!) pass down the strip and things get weird when he pulls the parachute and instead of it deploying the way it should it gets all tangled up and wadded into places it should not be. That causes the car to make an immediate left hand turn and head straight toward the wall at a very high rate of speed.
The truly good thing that helps Danny as impending doom is staring him in the fact is the fact that the nose of the dragster picks up just before striking the wall and actually lands on top of the barriers instead of smashing into them. On the negative side, this cases the car to go into a series of violent pencil rolls and we can only imagine the incredible violence of that inside the car. Because of the construction and design of modern dragsters, you’ll see Danny Tuelstrup climb out of this car as soon as it stops moving. It is an amazing testament to the technology of modern racing that this happened. This would have been a fatal crash decades ago but today, the driver get out more pissed off than hurt.
Strange indeed. The chute was definitely the cause. Does he have a wheelie bar net?
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Re: Another bad one (wreck)
[Re: BobR]
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06/12/14 08:11 PM
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wasn't the chute . team seems to think there was a lock up of some sort
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