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I was joking to my wife last night that JF will show up at the next race with some high tech carbon fiber/kevlar casts and devices that will allow him to drive the car at the next race and end up in the countdown. I also said that JF is such a competitor he'll be mad at Ashley and the team for pulling her out of the semi finals (that was a very good decision in my opinion and kudo's to the team for doing it).

I'm sure that Roger Stull and John Medlen led the team in a prayer afterward thanking God that John was not (more) seriously injured.

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Even though I am not superstitious I hope they never run that paint scheme again after what happened to Eric and now John. Had nothing to do with either accident but brings back too many bad memories.
 
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I am confused on why people think it is a tire failure, all the pictures and video that I saw looks like there are two intact tires when they are getting the car back upright. Am I not seeing something that others are seeing? I saw the body and the wing get distroyed but I don't think it was caused by a tire exploding, I think it might be something else.
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Hey Chris, take a look at this vid at 3:18. While the majority of the tire seems to be attatched to the rim, there is some damage, delamination, or something. It does not appear to me that the tire is inflated, normally you would not be able to read the part of EAGLE on the tire that faces in.


YouTube - John Force Crash at Dallas -- Part 2 of 3
 
Latest JFR news - that "old trucker" took a licking and keeps on ticking - a lot better news than yesterday.

Monday, 1:30 a.m. CT: Good news from Baylor University Medical Center, where doctors operating on 14-time NHRA Funny Car world champ John Force were able to set his broken left ankle and determined that his wrist was not broken but just severely dislocated.

According to team spokesperson Elon Werner, doctors inserted three pins into Force's ankle to set it and inserted three temporary pins to stabilize his wrist.

Force came through the surgery well.

Anyone care to make a bet on how quick we see him back in a car?
 
Take a look at this video at 4:37 and 4:38. Right at the start of the 4:38 frames it appear that the right rear of John's car drops abruptly as if the tire just went flat.
 
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Take a look at this video at 4:37 and 4:38. Right at the start of the 4:38 frames it appear that the right rear of John's car drops abruptly as if the tire just went flat.
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In looking at this section of the video the first thing that seems to happen is the left side panel and spoiler comes off, just as the chute starts to come out. That would take the downforce off the lest side that would then I think make the right side drop like it seems to in the video. That looks to be about the same time the right side rear tire starts to smoke. Which would make sense with all the weight of the car and all the downforce now on the right side.
 
to me the instant opinion is to say a tire failure but I am not thinking that is what it is. I think it is something else, be it in the chassis that came off and took out the body or a failure in the body itself.
 
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Eric was running the AAA scheme when he had his accident.

I still find it hard picturing Force in a black Castrol car.
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Paul, Eric had contact with the wall on Sunday and banged up the AAA body. He was running his back up body (Syntec) for testing on Monday,
 
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Eric was running the AAA scheme when he had his accident.

I still find it hard picturing Force in a black Castrol car.
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From my understanding it was Roberts car that actually crashed either that or Robert was supposed to be driving it and changed his mind at the last minute.
 
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From my understanding it was Roberts car that actually crashed either that or Robert was supposed to be driving it and changed his mind at the last minute.
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I can shed some light on this since I was there. Eric was in the AAA body during raceday but they used the Syntec car on Monday for testing. I was talking to a crew guy on Eric's team on Sunday night asking him if they were testing Monday and he said yes but they were using the black body because they didn't have many of the AAA bodies and they were saving those for raceday. All four cars were testing that day with each driver in their own cars. From what I can remember that was Eric's 1st pass of the day. I don't remember any of the other Force cars running that day. Everybody was pretty much done after that.
 
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I can shed some light on this since I was there. Eric was in the AAA body during raceday but they used the Syntec car on Monday for testing. I was talking to a crew guy on Eric's team on Sunday night asking him if they were testing Monday and he said yes but they were using the black body because they didn't have many of the AAA bodies and they were saving those for raceday. All four cars were testing that day with each driver in their own cars. From what I can remember that was Eric's 1st pass of the day. I don't remember any of the other Force cars running that day. Everybody was pretty much done after that.
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Thanks for the info, I was just going off what I had been told and it was a good source. It doesn't really matter at this point.
 
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Thanks for the info, I was just going off what I had been told and it was a good source. It doesn't really matter at this point.
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You are right. None of that matters now. I just wanted to set the story straight since I was one of the few that was there and seen what happened. I know alot of people speculate. I just thought that some facts may help.
 
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