Typical "everything is fine, we know what we're doing, stop staring at that man behind the curtain pulling the levers" NHRA-style.
On NHRA's site, along with a photo of Johnny's Firewall covering his windscreen, the caption beneath the photo states....
"Johnny Gray suffered an engine explosion in the second round of Funny Car; his Dodge Charger body remained on the car as designed by the newly mandated tether system."
I imagine, two years from now you'll read....
"Courtney Force suffered an engine explosion during the first round of competition. The mandated articulated arm deployed as designed, but a malfunction occurred in the rapid epoxy delivery system affixed to the arm. The back-up safety device was then triggered which released the rhesus monkey. The monkey then made it's way out to the front deck of the broken body, and applied the epoxy to the body, gluing it successfully to the injector, and it's tiny hands. Courtney said she couldn't see a thing until some rodent seemed to clear the windshield. Fans later commented on how they would have loved to have seen the monkey do it's thing, but the mandated hockey helmets for spectators and the seven inch plexiglas made it difficult. NHRA is currently looking into a solution to the rhesus breeding program."
Rube Goldberg would love the NHRA.
