Worst oildown you've ever seen? (12 Viewers)
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Randy Parks Indy early 90's, his TAD dumped the rear end and the engine freewheeled. Blew up EVERYTHING. And covered both lanes.
He was running just before a (rare for the time) live TV window and for two hours they did a live show without one single car going down the track.
Alan
He was running just before a (rare for the time) live TV window and for two hours they did a live show without one single car going down the track.
Alan
65 Goatboy
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2023 WWT St. Louis final eliminations. Two pro mods came together just past the starting line. LOTS of gear lube, took at least 1 1/2 hours maybe a little longer. It was very hot and we hid under the bleachers for a while!
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As a variation, what is the whackiest reason for a delay, even a short one? For example, a rabbit runs across the track and gets diced into 1,000 pieces or someone on the starting line pukes from inhaling nitro fumes.
There have never been any drunk drag race streakers like they had at the Super Bowl, correct?
There have never been any drunk drag race streakers like they had at the Super Bowl, correct?
MM
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Some that come to mind is last year or the year before at a bracket race there was a drunk driver that came driving up the track from the shutdown area in their passenger vehicle, but I don't remember the track.
One year at Muncie we got delayed in the water box because there was a heard of deer in the shutdown area. They weren't on the track, but the shutdown area had no guardrails so they were worried about them wondering onto the track. Had to wait 10-15 minutes for the safety crew to shoo them back into the woods.
A few years back at Charlotte I think, one of the track scrubbers had a hydraulic line come off and cause a delay.
Just Paul
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Antron Brown leveled one at the fall Vegas race in the late 2000’s. I remember it being abnormally long. Now that I think about it, he might have blown up twice that weekend, Q2 and Q4.
Luigi nuked one first round in Brainerd in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s. Ruined the right lane for the rest of the day. People still talk about that one.
Last year we had a bracket bike at my local track come through the lights with one less rod in it than it left the starting line with. I swear it must of had 15 quarts of oil in it for as long as it took to clean up.
I’ll try to think of more.
Luigi nuked one first round in Brainerd in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s. Ruined the right lane for the rest of the day. People still talk about that one.
Last year we had a bracket bike at my local track come through the lights with one less rod in it than it left the starting line with. I swear it must of had 15 quarts of oil in it for as long as it took to clean up.
I’ll try to think of more.
sfw1960
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Way back, I had a UDRA Altered puke a crank on the ground coming out of the waterbox and don't really recall if I got it on video, I used to work the starting line & my wife would typically record down track -660' or even past the traps, but I've NEVER seen anything like AR described, but sounds so brutal.
Saw 2 streakers back at the old Irwindale in early 70's. One just ran down the track for a bit & got into a van. (What if the guys in the van kept the door closed?? heh heh) Other one was a nekkid guy on a drag bike. I kid you not. Announcer was going nuts. As far as bad oil downs, pick one from the 1960's - 70's. There were 2 guys in the bed of a pick up. They would each have 50 lb bags of oil dry powder. Pour it on the track to cover the oil down. Then come back down the track, each man with a push broom. Repeat until the oil was (mostly) cleaned up. Whoever got that lane was screwed. Oh, and you had plenty of time to go to concession stand, the restroom, take a nap, etc. Been thru my share of those.
War story. Once at the old Irwindale, Larry Sutton was the starter. Just before the T/F final, oil down just off the starting line in right lane. Got it cleaned up. Leland Kolb was in the bad lane, James Warren in the left. Larry told Leland to make another burn out thru the grease sweep. Worked, cuz the final was a great race. Warren won with a 5.99 and Leland ran 6.12, but it was side by side. I heard Warren in the winers circle, said that he saw Leland "all the way down". I remember Leland was really on his game that day, put a hole shot on everyone. That was an old WCS race, Div 7, back when the Pro cars ran with the sportsmen. Was like a mini nat'l event.
War story. Once at the old Irwindale, Larry Sutton was the starter. Just before the T/F final, oil down just off the starting line in right lane. Got it cleaned up. Leland Kolb was in the bad lane, James Warren in the left. Larry told Leland to make another burn out thru the grease sweep. Worked, cuz the final was a great race. Warren won with a 5.99 and Leland ran 6.12, but it was side by side. I heard Warren in the winers circle, said that he saw Leland "all the way down". I remember Leland was really on his game that day, put a hole shot on everyone. That was an old WCS race, Div 7, back when the Pro cars ran with the sportsmen. Was like a mini nat'l event.
