johnna dunn hurt on starting line (1 Viewer)

[roscoe37]

she was hit in the face on the starting .maybe by a piece of rubber.more on competitionplus.

 

[Jer]

Crushed septum,surgery,ouch. Get well soon!!

 

[stitcherbob]

that's horrible....get well soon

 

[DixonFan]

https://www.competitionplus.com/drag-racing/news/johnna-dunn-injured-in-freak-starting-line-accident

 

[glofria]

Glad she'll be okay. That's why you never never never stand behind a car during the burn out or launch. I've been hit by a loose rock (picked up by a tire in the pits) while standing 30' behind the water box and it stung bad.

 

[roscoe37]

Eugene, if you read this.please let us know how shes doing,and tell her to get better soon.
acmerocket

 

[BF]

Wow, that's scary...hope she gets get well soon.

 

[HEMI6point1]

Holy sh*t. Hope she gets better soon.

 

[Sandman]

Prayers go out for a speedy recovery. I agree with Gino, I've had my bike hit by broken U-Joint shrapnel while waiting in the staging lanes before. It scares me to see all the people in the no prep races lined up all around the cars at the line. My guess is they've never seen a clutch come apart at the hit, or an auto trans or an entire pinion gear drop out of the car and bounce off the pavement.

 

[FABMAN]

Get well soon Johnna the Drag Racing family is praying for you.

 

[FABMAN]

Hope NHRA looks at this and make rule that team members must stand to one side or other to watch car. Really proper way to watch how cars working anyway. Start throwing rocks now LoL

 

[Z28LT1]

Glad she'll be okay. That's why you never never never stand behind a car during the burn out or launch. I've been hit by a loose rock (picked up by a tire in the pits) while standing 30' behind the water box and it stung bad.

I was a little late rolling into the track one day last year. The road leading to the track runs right behind the burnout box. I ended up with a rock chip in my side window on my old truck from one being thrown from the tire during the burnout.

 

[Jeff]

Hope NHRA looks at this and make rule that team members must stand to one side or other to watch car. Really proper way to watch how cars working anyway. Start throwing rocks now LoL

I do think you have a good idea... Safety Glasses would not be a bad idea too.. I still have a scar under my right eye from a "burnout rock"...
Now, I always turn away from a car doing a burnout, or at least look down if not standing to the side...

 

[Bob K.]

There was in incident here in Las Vegas where somehow a wrench was left on top of a tire. When the car, and it was an alcohol funny car burned out it threw that wrench clear back to someone standing
in front of the tower. It hit him hard in the leg. Could have been worse.

 

[Jer]

There was in incident here in Las Vegas where somehow a wrench was left on top of a tire. When the car, and it was an alcohol funny car burned out it threw that wrench clear back to someone standing
in front of the tower. It hit him hard in the leg. Could have been worse.

Ouch,that sounds like a final destination movie.

 

[Jeff]

In Tulsa a number of years ago, a TD in front of us had a screw gun attachment somewhere loose in his car, when his car left the starting line the part fell under his tire and was shot about 1" into the arch of my foot, through my shoe. I was standing in the yellow area to the side when this happened. I didn't look down at the puddle of blood until after my wife had done her burn out. I almost fainted when I saw the tool sticking out of my shoe. I didn't tell her why I was hopping to help stage her until she was down track.

 

[Cliff]

I was at an AA/FA show at the late Speedworld in Phoenix, probably 1980's. Car made a burnout & "woofed the blower". This was pre-blower bag days, so pieces went everywhere. No one got hurt, but I still have a piece of that blower to this day. Was at OCIR one year, standing at the top end by the ambulance. Dragster goes thru the lights & I hear "thunk" 2 times. It was the rods out of the engine & they hit the ambulance. That was the last time I stood there......

 

[r2]

That's a heck of a picture you painted, Jeff.

I've had 2-ton grown men drop like a sack of sand who were standing right next to me from being hit. I know it takes 11 people to watch their car go down the track, but I'm sure glad Johnna took it to the nose and not her eyewear.

She seems like a heck of a girl away from the track as well. Happy it wasn't worse.

- speedy healing

Glad to see you turning away from the car after giving it a shove, Eugene. It's a fine line I know. Keep the pretty parts covered, and I'm not talking about your calves.

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[4onthefl4]

Sometimes it looks like more people at the starting line than in the stands. Didn't Joe Amato's ex, Jerri, get hit real bad a few years from a fireball explosion at the starting line?

 

[Just Paul]

Hope NHRA looks at this and make rule that team members must stand to one side or other to watch car.

Have you looked into it yourself? She was on the left guard rail over as far as she could be.

Didn't Joe Amato's ex, Jerri, get hit real bad a few years from a fireball explosion at the starting line?

Yes, Sonoma 89 final. Joe kicked the rods out on the burnout, and Gere got hit.