During the cacklefest they lined up the gasser and nitro cars with starters up near the start.
The had the old school push start dragsters at the finish line. The idea was once they parked cars were started they would start push starting the others, once started their push vehicle would just follow as the dragster drove up the track then down the return road and stop in front of those bleachers.
Once Garlits was started his push car drove past him(the only push car to do so) The car behind him was an Tommy Ivo remake, although he was not driving that one, he was in a different one of his cars. Anyway the push car was traveling way to fast. Once it finally let go the dragster was hauling. I'm not sure if the driver could see over his engine at garlits or not, without Garlits tow vehicle there he may not have. It looked like he started to go towards the middle of the track, then saw that he was closing fast on the lane on parked cars, ducked back in slightly and then rammed into the back of Garlits. Garlits kept going.
I wasn't able to get to Garlits cars afterwards but did hear him complaining about the damage and how bad it was. The Ivo car smashed in the front cone, and bent most of the steering and control bars. Garlits was walking around fine afterwards and I don't believe the other driver was hurt so thats good.
