Sula
WDF. So worth the wait.
or if you have text messaging just email them to yourselfYou dumb fukc. If I can figure how to get these pics off the phone, I'll prove you wrong AGAIN!!
I knew it'd come to this.
Tragedy in the fast lane
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AndyMarquisLIVE
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You dumb fukc. If I can figure how to get these pics off the phone, I'll prove you wrong AGAIN!!
I knew it'd come to this.
All you're going to prove is that the sand pit at MIR is twice as big as E'Town.
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Gtmustang88
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^+1. But even with a longer sand pit and etc, the car was going too fast for it to even slow the car down. RIP. Appearently a camera guy was hurt too that was at the end of the track and also I heard that part of the car hit the camera boom at the end.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Just...
..talked to a gear head buddy about this. He says they do NOT have oxygen, so, if you're on fire, you gotta get out, but quick.
Also, he says there was a net there at the end, not a wall.
And, lastly, there's been plenty of conversation in the sport that something like this was simply a matter of time as many of the tracks are older and there simply isn't room to make them longer.
A tragedy in any event.
..talked to a gear head buddy about this. He says they do NOT have oxygen, so, if you're on fire, you gotta get out, but quick.
Also, he says there was a net there at the end, not a wall.
And, lastly, there's been plenty of conversation in the sport that something like this was simply a matter of time as many of the tracks are older and there simply isn't room to make them longer.
A tragedy in any event.
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Gtmustang88
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Yea, there is no oxygen. But there is a wall, after the net/fence.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
So...
...did he go through the net and hit the wall? It looks like he hit a wall which made me surprised about hearing about a net. It looked like a freaking bomb went off.
...did he go through the net and hit the wall? It looks like he hit a wall which made me surprised about hearing about a net. It looked like a freaking bomb went off.
camily
Peace
Regardless, he wouldn't have suffocated in that short period of time. I'm going with the big bang theory on this one. Wow, never thought I'd say that.
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Gtmustang88
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...did he go through the net and hit the wall? It looks like he hit a wall which made me surprised about hearing about a net. It looked like a freaking bomb went off.
Yea, net didn't do much at all. They had barriers like the side wall going down the track, at the end, then you pretty much got the road. I heard parts of the engine actually went over the road, they had it shut down for awhile.
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toppick08
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...did he go through the net and hit the wall? It looks like he hit a wall which made me surprised about hearing about a net. It looked like a freaking bomb went off.
Nitromethane is a bomb, that's why those Hemis "crackle and pop"......
AndyMarquisLIVE
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It wasn't a net - it was a fence.
The car slammed the wall, and went up and over the wall like a rocket.
I talked to one of the photographers on scene after the wreck. He said it was the worst wreck he'd ever seen in 30+ years of covering the sport.
AndyMarquisLIVE
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Gtmustang88
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I said net/fence in one of my post. Either way it didn't do anything at those speeds.
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Gtmustang88
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I thought he was talking about E'town...
Larry Gude
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Larry Gude
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AndyMarquisLIVE
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Instead of running a quarter mile, they should either run 1/8 mile or 1,000 feet. Most of the problems occur after the 1/8 mile. Shutdown after 1,000 feet and that would give them plenty of time.
These sand pits need to be larger. MIR's is acceptable since they only have nitro funny car run there once a year - most of the racing at MIR is street, stock and sportsman. :shrug:
The concrete wall is the thing that bothers me the most. I'd rather see drivers hit a SAFER barrier or a tire barrier.
Tony Pedregon's right though, the NHRA needs a
for this. They should've done something after Eric Medelen's death.
MMDad
Lem Putt
Don't ruin the sport over a rare tragedy. There's no reason to over do it. The only way to make racing perfectly safe is to stop doing it.
There are changes that help without ruining the sport - HANS, SAFER, onboard extinguishers, etc. We don't need things that ruin the sport, like restrictor plates, or pop-off valves in Indy.
I agree that they need to look at what could have helped here. His chutes didn't deploy effectively. Maybe that's the answer?
