Chip King Crumples The Daytona

[BlueStangGT]

Sounds like he had a chute failure, put it through the sand, into the tires and, fortunately, walked away from it.

Commisso was on a good pace, ahead of King at half track, but then his car started to dance out toward the wall and his chutes came out. King made a full pass, and then some, his chutes not coming out. He could not get it stopped and went into the dirt hard, raising a big dust cloud. He bumped his way well into the field, but his car will probably require some major repair work after rearranging the kitty litter. The car went all the way through the sand, to the tire barrier. Estimated time to remove the car and repair the sand trap, 30 minutes. Estimated time to repair the car, a lot longer than that.

 

[Just Paul]

Pic up at Comp +

http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_07/photos/milan/IMG_5267.jpg

 

[Deby]

Sure hate to see that...that was one bad looking car....

 

[Paul]

Pic up at Comp +

http://www.competitionplus.com/2006_07/photos/milan/IMG_5267.jpg

Wow, when I was at Englishtown it looked nothing like that. That WAS one beautiful car. Hopefully, Chip will regroup and return.

 

[Jrod]

yikes that sucks...that was a cool looking car.

 

[dragboatphoto]

Man, that hurts my feelings to see that, was one of my favorite looking cars out there! Doesn't look very fixable.

 

[Gordon]

Sure hate to see that...that was one bad looking car....

Couldn't agree more, that was one fine lookin' Hot Rod. Hope he gets it put back together soon.

 

[Sully]

There was a similar accident in Super Rod Sunday, the throttle hung open and the roadster barrel rolled through the sand and over the tires. Driver was airlifted to the hospital, never did get a medical update on his condition. Milan has plenty of shutdown, but a malfunctioning chute or hung throttle eats any shutdown in a big hurry.

 

[Toejam]

They said the car was fixable, plus Chip has a spare body!

 

[handsome]

from what i heard, the damage was pretty extensive so....... a new car is in the works.

 

[Rocketman 207]

Man, that hurts my feelings to see that, was one of my favorite looking cars out there!

Me too...
Hope to see it return!

 

[winr]

Sorry to see that. Go to Vanishing Point Race Cars web site (vprc.com) and look at the pics of the build process. A lot of effort was put into that body glad to hear they have an extra body