Promod racer Marc Caruso into the kitty litter

[DixonFan]

https://www.facebook.com/64205041409/posts/10157516743416410

 

[vegasnitro]

Man, that thing didn't scrub very much speed. It went thru that net and into the barrels HARD. Glad he is OK.

 

[Jer]

Maybe something more should be done before someone dies crashing into a mountain??

 

[handsome]

no brakes? these cars have 4 wheel carbon brakes and shouldn't have gone into the sand at that speed.

 

[stitcherbob]

that was a bad one.....

 

[Chili]

Marc did have a lower lumbar fracture in the crash. From what I understand the brakes failed as well.

 

[mike]

Pro-mod are not required to have carbon brakes

 

[FABMAN]

A car that runs 250 mph should have the best braking available required or not !!

 

[Cliff]

Agreed. That was scary watching that car skip over the kitty litter & into the barrels. I've noticed quite a few times that at high speed, the kitty litter is almost useless. The tires don't dig into it at all. Could the sand trap be made longer & deeper, like what is used for runaway 18 wheelers.

 

[none]

All the panels under the cars, engine belly pans etc have turned them into surf boards when they hit the sand traps.

 

[troy boy]

Water is even softer but at speed it gets hard and you will skip on it too.

 

[andujar]

 

[Bob K.]

As far as I could see that car had no brakes at all! Whoever was announcer at the time said he locked them up once, Bull! I watched the replay many times, there was not even a wisp of smoke at any time
in the shutdown area. and I do have 20/20 vision thanks to cataract surgery. The carbon fiber brakes on those cars should have stopped that car, maybe going into the gravel a little, but absolutely not both nets! Something went terribly wrong! That thing looked
like it was going 200 when it hit the gravel.

 

[mikebcurve]

They should impose a Cat Spot logo into the sand trap like they do for the finish line, lol.

 

[Nunz]

I talked to Marc’s dad Joe today (these guys live in my area) and Joe said total brake failure, in addition to the obvious chute failure. Still don’t know why they malfunctioned. But, it could have been a helluva lot worse considering how fast he was going,

 

[justafan]

Dragzine posted this interview with Marc today. Scary indeed.

Pro Mod Mayhem: Marc Caruso Talks About Brutal Bristol Crash

Marc Caruso's parachutes failed to deploy at the Thunder Valley Nationals which led to a nasty crash.Caruso talks with us about what happened and how he's doing after the incident.

www.dragzine.com

 

[Dennis]

Out of curiosity, has NHRA hired any expert to design the sand traps or is this just a matter of it's always the way it's been done?

Surely there is a better solution.

 

[MM]

Out of curiosity, has NHRA hired any expert to design the sand traps or is this just a matter of it's always the way it's been done?

Surely there is a better solution.

Marc hit the trap at an extremely high rate of speed and got himself out of the car with minor injuries. How much of a better solution are you looking for? Traveling at that speed, you aren't going to have a trap that won't tear the car up. The traps were completely redone after Scott Kalitta's accident.