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Doug Kalitta's wing - final round
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T.Smith
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Yes, the top element came off. The car got a bit sideways on him.
HEMI6point1
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I noticed that too. It could have been a lot worse.
Just Paul
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Well come on Billy.. give ESPN a break.. after all, they did bring in Paul Page for us.... <insert favorite vomit sound affect here>
Doug in the woods
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I was sure it was Fullers wing that came apart?. Wasn't Fuller in the perfered left lane (head on shot in right half of screen)
If you slow down the video you can see several white things flying across behind the car. Not sure what they are?
If you slow down the video you can see several white things flying across behind the car. Not sure what they are?
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from DRC:
Round 4:
R Fuller, Right lane, (0.040) 4.531 327.82 def. D Kalitta, (0.044) 4.537 331.36
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Just as he came through the lights the top element and both spill plates came off of the wing.
"Dr. Dirt"
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It appeared to me that Doug's car tossed some wing parts through the lights but I believe he safely handled the car. I'm confident even ESPN would have taken notice of it had some incident followed.
I frame by framed it a couple of times, but I was not recording it on high def. Do you think he might have been chunking the tires? Obviously even a rivet giving way is going to happen quickly at 300mph, but it seems like a piece of tire hitting the wing is the most likely thing to achieve that kind of nearly straight up trajectory.
It's been over an hour since I watched this (just got home from a race and had to put the rig away, I was in the rig watching the satelite and had to run inside to replay since ESPN was asleep), but I thought that the left spill plate remained on the wing assembly.
Jeff
It's been over an hour since I watched this (just got home from a race and had to put the rig away, I was in the rig watching the satelite and had to run inside to replay since ESPN was asleep), but I thought that the left spill plate remained on the wing assembly.
Jeff
BaldyLochs
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Yeah, something definately came loose. Yikes-o-mighty! Those top end wing failures are scary buisness. I was in Houston in the early 90's one year when the wing came apart on Doug's uncle's top fueler right at 1300 feet. The Ol' Bounty Hunter was tore up from the floor up after that one!
Gipraw
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I saw a piece fly up, and just assumed he threw a belt .. the deleted the Tivo before I saw this thread ..
If he did lose part of the wing, he did a hell of a job handling the car afterwards, because it didn't even move ..
what did he say when ESPN talked to him after the run?
oh .. yeah.
If he did lose part of the wing, he did a hell of a job handling the car afterwards, because it didn't even move ..
what did he say when ESPN talked to him after the run?
oh .. yeah.
I sent an e mail to the Kalitta Team blog Sunday night. They acknowledged the failure on their latest installment, but they did not have any answers as to what caused the failure. Their speculation was that the failure started in the main element and chain reacted from there.
