SLOWLX Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130217/NHRA/130219828 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagner Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 One of the worst I have seen since John Force's bad wreck in TX. worse possible place to have something go wrong when you are at terminal velocity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLOWLX Posted February 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Scary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco-REX Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Wow.. just BOOM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan9381 Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I don't follow racing much, but did this guy used to run motorcycles years ago, or am i thinking of someone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bad95gt Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I don't follow racing much, but did this guy used to run motorcycles years ago, or am i thinking of someone else? Yeah same guy im pretty sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 That wreck was tame compared to Schumacher's in Memphis in 2000. And Brown used to ride for Schumacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffro Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 ^ Way worse than OPs videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Other Nick Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 They had alot of trouble that race, lots of cars seemed to be popping the blowers off and making for intresting races. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitgeist57 Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Amazing how well cages work these days. 300mph and the frame survives a major explosion, and skid to a stop from that speed...bouncing off of concrete walls in the process. The driver walks away. Simply amazing. Glad Antron was OK! :thumbup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Amazing how well cages work these days. 300mph and the frame survives a major explosion, and skid to a stop from that speed...bouncing off of concrete walls in the process. The driver walks away. Simply amazing. Glad Antron was OK! :thumbup: Seconded. Shit is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagner Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 Amazing how well cages work these days. 300mph and the frame survives a major explosion, and skid to a stop from that speed...bouncing off of concrete walls in the process. The driver walks away. Simply amazing. Glad Antron was OK! :thumbup: I was lucky enough to meet and talk with the head of fabrication at DSR Racing while in Indy for the NMCA race. The level of detail and work that goes into what they build is crazy, they really try to push the pace of design of these cars. The size of the shop there is amazing. They keep all of the teams haulers in there and work on the cars right by them. http://www.nhra.com/story/story.aspx?F_y=2011&F_m=8&F_d=24&CustomURL=nhra-legends-to-highlight-6th-annual-dsr-open-house&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted February 18, 2013 Report Share Posted February 18, 2013 I have personally talked to Tony Schumacher over lunch about that accident in 2000. He told me they estimate the spinning cage around him that separated containing him put 100+ Gs through his body each time it contacted the ground. His doctors said that if his head was turned a little bit a different way than the position it was in during the crash he would not have survived that accident. Game of Millimeters. Also if you look at the video, his accident was caused by the force of air on the spoiler to crumble it, then once deformed enough it rips off the car causing it to go airborne. Those things are super necessary. That's why all my cars have huge wings, I don't want the same happening to me when I go 250-325MPH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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