Rear ended by a funny car... (2 Viewers)

[Just Paul]

There are only a handful of people in the world that have been rear ended by a funny car. (Jeff Arend, Scotty Cannon, Ron Correnti, Paul Smith, Tony Bartone to name a few) Add this poor guy to the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_gxxRVG7Fmk


FF to :40

 

[Silly Savage]

There are only a handful of people in the world that have been rear ended by a funny car. (Jeff Arend, Scotty Cannon, Ron Correnti, Paul Smith, Tony Bartone to name a few) Add this poor guy to the list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_gxxRVG7Fmk


FF to :40

That type of funny car should not have even been fired up until the cars in front of him were down the track....WTF were they thinking. Track officials are at fault just as much as that team and their crew.

 

[Jim]

Seems like some kind of mechanical failure, no?

Isn't it S.O.P. to do the water box while another car is staging?

 

[Silly Savage]

Seems like some kind of mechanical failure, no?

Isn't it S.O.P. to do the water box while another car is staging?

Not with a blown funny car.....maybe if they were a bunch of 11 second door slammers, then yes.

 

[twostep]

That looked like some kind of a blown Plymouth GTX TS car.....?

Not that it matters; still a senseless and expensive accident.

 

[Nunz]

Typically the faster cars, especially blown FCs and dragsters, don't even start until the track is clear.

 

[Speedy_Sticks]

The funny thing is that karma played the best roll He won't be doing that again!

 

[TooTall999]

If you watch the full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfM83BltiP0 you'll see it looks like a bracket funny car. It's shown in the staging lanes with the body up.

 

[Silly Savage]

If you watch the full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfM83BltiP0 you'll see it looks like a bracket funny car. It's shown in the staging lanes with the body up.

I'll have to watch it again...didn't see it....

 

[Silly Savage]

If you watch the full video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfM83BltiP0 you'll see it looks like a bracket funny car. It's shown in the staging lanes with the body up.

Nope...look again here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtPPTI6inQ

 

[TooTall999]

Nope...look again here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtPPTI6inQ

At 1:27 you'll see the black mustang next to a funny car with the body up. Looks like the same car to me.

 

[Silly Savage]

At 1:27 you'll see the black mustang next to a funny car with the body up. Looks like the same car to me.

Probably, but it pretty much looks like a blown f/c of some variety....

 

[TooTall999]

It could be blown, not saying it's not. All I do know is the starting area officials never should have let him start it until the track was clear.

 

[Silly Savage]

It could be blown, not saying it's not. All I do know is the starting area officials never should have let him start it until the track was clear.

I couldn't agree more. The faster cars of that type don't need to be fired up sitting behind 11-12 second door cars trying to stage.

Makes me wonder if they were trying to just turn it over prior and it fired off, body dropped and it launched forward.

Maybe one day we'll hear the whole story.

 

[twostep]

It could be blown, not saying it's not. All I do know is the starting area officials never should have let him start it until the track was clear.

I can see it's a flopper now; the first video wasn't real clear. Sounds just like any other blown TAFC doing a burnout....except there was a black Mustang sitting in the way of it.

 

[my friends call me Zappy]

I hold the driver responsible, not his crew, or the track crew.

 

[cdag]

I hold the driver responsible, not his crew, or the track crew.

I have to disagree, Paul. HOS should not have signaled that car to fire until the previous pair was making the turnoff.

 

[my friends call me Zappy]

I have to disagree, Paul. HOS should not have signaled that car to fire until the previous pair was making the turnoff.

I agree with that part, but also the problem wasn't when the car was started, it was the driver that began his burnout before the cars ahead had left the starting line.

 

[Silly Savage]

Are we sure he was doing a "burn out"? IF this was a newer driver and he was watching his crew as he was approaching the water box (as he should have) the crew should have waved him off, but even before that, his crew should have never fired that car. An experienced driver would have never proceeded...or at least I would hope not.

Things like this happen to experienced drivers too:

2013 Cavalcade of Funny Cars - Geezers Reunion Halstead Incident Candies and Hughes Nitro Funny Car - YouTube

Driver's POV:

Maple Grove 2013 - YouTube

 

[Silly Savage]

To be fair....I just red that the owner/crew chief waved him in to start his burn out. And the driver's name is......Gord Smart.... (not a joke)