Daddy Dave street outlaws

[stitcherbob]

I still have not seen any good video of this. All I see on you tube is some Yahoo with a cell phone camera filming more of the burnout than the lap. Anyone got a link to a better video ?

 

[stitcherbob]

this video is a perfect example of what this TV show can lead to - cars built with too much horsepower and not enough safety/brains being raced on unprepped tracks or streets by drivers that can't handle them

 

[vegasnitro]

Here is a video that shows the wreck, the car after and the racers chopping up the purse with Dave after the wreck.

 

[Bob]

It would have been a spin out if it had been on the street. Many of you have never seen a track without walls, Fremont, San Fernando, etc. Saw many cars spin out, or get off the track and back on.

In this particular case, the track was way more dangerous than the street would have been.

I couldn't disagree more. The angle of the hit was straight in 90 degree T-bone. Anything in close proximity, had there been no wall, would have been toast. That wall actually might have kept him alive as dirt and other debris could have entered the driver's compartment and knocked his head off as he rolled.

I was at Sonoma in 1997 when Carrie Neal died. There were no retaining walls past the finish line that day. She tried to scrub off speed by leaving the track past the retaining walls. A friend pulled double duty that day - he took photos for both National Dragster and the county coroner. All racing was cancelled for the rest of that day. The next day, retaining walls were in place for the length of the shutdown area.

Those walls keep people alive - racers, spectators, track workers, and assorted photo guys and gals who know when to duck.

 

[Nick Name]

This weekend at Willow Springs there will be at least a dozen cars leave the track at big speed. They will spin out in the dirt and no one will get hurt. If there were walls they would be going to the hospital.

 

[stitcherbob]

there are no walls in street racing....only telephone poles....and army tanks

 

[T.Smith]

I couldn't disagree more. The angle of the hit was straight in 90 degree T-bone. Anything in close proximity, had there been no wall, would have been toast. That wall actually might have kept him alive as dirt and other debris could have entered the driver's compartment and knocked his head off as he rolled.

I was at Sonoma in 1997 when Carrie Neal died. There were no retaining walls past the finish line that day. She tried to scrub off speed by leaving the track past the retaining walls. A friend pulled double duty that day - he took photos for both National Dragster and the county coroner. All racing was cancelled for the rest of that day. The next day, retaining walls were in place for the length of the shutdown area.

Those walls keep people alive - racers, spectators, track workers, and assorted photo guys and gals who know when to duck.

Greg Moore, Jerry Caminto and Shirley Muldowney come to mind as well.

 

[CrewMan]

there are no walls in street racing....only telephone poles....and army tanks

Let me guess..."But.... but... but.... officer that's how they do it on TV..."

 

[Nick Name]

Check this out.

 

[my friends call me Zappy]

Those walls keep people alive - .

Not always, with out trackside walls I believe we would still have Eric.

 

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Not always, with out trackside walls I believe we would still have Eric.

Say what? Extreme out-of-balance G-forces killed him, not a wall.

 

[Nick Name]

 

[stitcherbob]

Say what? Extreme out-of-balance G-forces killed him, not a wall.

if this site has the correct info, then it could have been both

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Medlen#Death

 

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if this site has the correct info, then it could have been both

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Medlen#Death

Yes, the car hit the wall. No, the hit did not cause his death. What caused his death was the extreme shaking from the out-of-balance tire that literally shook him to death.

After Medlen’s accident the first area that Dimarco and the Ford team studied was the area surrounding the driver’s head. This was the source of Medlen’s injuries and the data gleaned from the accident influenced them to widen the surround and begin simply with adding more padding. This move helped reduce some of the loads on the driver’s head.

http://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/9355-eric-medlen-project-saving-lives

The brain trauma that caused Funny Car driver Eric Medlen's death last week likely was the result of severe tire vibration and not the impact of the ensuing low-angle crash against a retaining wall during a test run in Gainesville, Fla.

That's what [URL='http://www.chron.com/search/?action=search&channel=sports&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22NHRA+Powerade+Drag+Racing+Series%22']NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series

drivers and crew chiefs were told at a safety meeting conducted by John Force Racing via teleconference before Friday's qualifiers.

http://www.chron.com/sports/article/Tire-vibration-blamed-in-driver-s-death-1632486.php


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[turbo ken]

no prep (notice where the ambulance is sitting)

 

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[Larry]

To be fair they advertise they are the fastest " Street Racers " . The racing does take place on a street which they try to find all cement streets and of course get a permit , lights , safety equipment including ambulance but it's being done on a street so the premise is not a lie
Also I believe the Chevy two Dave had was already a race car when he got it so some of the work could have been done by a previous owner .