I've not quite figured out this youtube thing yet......can't find the thing that pops up with the film reel, but i'll use this post to work things out. Here's the link to the video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsEh2JcK08s
I was standing at the top end across the track when that happened. It was one of the scarier crashes I've seen. Fifty feet sooner and he would have been into the motorhomes parked over there. jerry
Yeah when you see the damaged guardrail you can see how close it was, he was lucky to walk away from that! Kev.
I was there too. It happened right in front of where we were standing. You could feel the heat from the fire when the fuel tank ruptured in the Willys. Thankfully BOTH drivers were ok. What the footage doesn’t show is that the Willys crossed the track just in front of the Camaro and went through the guardrail. When this happened, a 20 foot length of the guardrail flung out into the middle of the track at about a 4 foot height striking the Camaro in the Driver’s A pillar. It whacked it so hard that the A pillar was bent in the shape of an ‘L‘ and the roof was wrinkled up real bad.
Fancy camera work.... Two years ago at the HRR in Bowling Green, the purple Willys with the tall wing spun around at the top end and saved it. The most awesome thing I've seen in a long time.
nothing like a persons back right in your face during a crash. (terrible that it is, but we cant deny we like to see them sometimes) Its good that the driver did not hurt...awesome. His car....stick a fork in it...its done. Or open your wallet for some new metal work. Thanks for the video.
Didn't get to actually see that one till after the fact. Sounded pretty impressive in the Porta Potty between the stands when they blew by... Scaired me when they announced it was an Idaho car on the speakers. Hard to hear right in the shitters. At first I thought it was Kenny Ratslof instead of the Boise car. Kenny still sometimes drives his old gasser to cruise nights.
I didn't realise it was the guardrail that hit the Camaro........i remember it being real close though, looking back i do remember the talk about the damage to the Camaro & always wondered what caused it......he was lucky that was way too close! Kev.
It could have been. I remember the sound of that Willys coming down the track towards us The engine under load with the whine of the blower belt slowly gaining pitch then just before the thing went left, the pitch of that whining blower belt went way up real fast! I remember thinking that the car lost traction, but now that you mention it, it could have broken an axle or something...
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