Hungry Funny Car/Lucky crew guy!

[Too many to list here]

YouTube - Funny Car Ate a Guy
Thankfully he's ok!!

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

thats funny
btw-- read yer blog, thats funny too
where in ny are you??

 

[unclebob]

Absolutely nothing funny about it, reminded me of the very tragic incident at Houston in which a single mom trying to make a couple bucks as a security guard lost her life!

 

[Randy]

Absolutely nothing funny about it, reminded me of the very tragic incident at Houston in which a single mom trying to make a couple bucks as a security guard lost her life!

And...???

 

[Ken]

looks like the body caught the throttle when he lifted it. Seen that happen before. Very scary, glad the crewman is okay.

Ken

 

[Butch]

That is one thing my car owner/driver always made sure of, was that I watch the throttle linkage when lowering the body. We never had a problem.

 

[unclebob]

Not the case this time, look again, body wasn't close.
Inside injector bolt was loose and wiggled loose, fell into blower, broke case and lifted injector, pulling on cable. Bang and stopped.

 

[.]

Holy $h!t! I'm glad the guy is OK, that could have been bad. You couldn't pay me enough to be the guy to stand in front of the car and raise/lower the body!

 

[Just Paul]

KB about ran over half his crew in Brainerd 1988. A couple guys went down hard. The team had special shirts made up with tire tracks across them for the next race.

 

[JHOLE]

That is one thing my car owner/driver always made sure of, was that I watch the throttle linkage when lowering the body. We never had a problem.

Only time we had a problem was when you weren't there...

Shoulda been watchin' for that POS "buster" though huh... Damn I wish I was older then.......

Hey, missed ya on the 8th - happy belated BD.

 

[DrRocket]

KB about ran over half his crew in Brainerd 1988. A couple guys went down hard. The team had special shirts made up with tire tracks across them for the next race.

I was there that year! I saw that!

That video was scary. The outcome could have been much worse than it was. Remember when one of the Pedregon brothers cars removed a crew member's pants with just the force of the exhaust?

 

[Silly Savage]

I was there that year! I saw that!

That video was scary. The outcome could have been much worse than it was. Remember when one of the Pedregon brothers cars removed a crew member's pants with just the force of the exhaust?

Also removed part of a fomer crew memeber's tooth as he drove by....

 

[racer83]

The same guys do stuff like this

YouTube - burn out in driveway with 1800 hp

and this

YouTube - burn out with 1800 hp




TK

Ill give them credit for showmanship but safety not so much

 

[nitrojunky]

Also removed part of a fomer crew memeber's tooth as he drove by....

That was scary, it was a good friend of mine Cody that had to have his teeth fixed that weekend, luckily there was a dentist at the track that offered his services that night. And if I am not mistaken that was Dickie that lost his pants. The throttle link hooked the body on the way up. That guy was very lucky in that video.

 

[hotrod]

Back when I lived in Tulsa, I fired the dragster up in the driveway one day. I was sitting in the car with no helmet or belts and hit the throttle just a little. My head hit the rollcage and almost knocked me out. If it had knocked me out I would have run through the neighbor's garage. I learned a very, very important lesson that day.