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RIP. I understand someone got killed yesterday at Milan Dragway. They said a funny car did his burnout and was backing up and car stuck wide open hitting one of his crewmen. Someone posted that is was his Grandfather he hit and killed. Not sure but it is a tragedy.
Sad day for the family and another reason to have as few people as possible up near starting line and pay attention when you are there.

May he Rest In Peace and be careful out there people.


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Sad to hear. One reason I have always kept eyes on car. I see a lot that do not. It no only the driver you have to worry about. No matter which funny car class either well below 1 second 60' no wat driver has time to respond to stop it.

I am amazed there are not more as Curly1 pointed out , with dozens standing on starting line in some cases.

Feel for family.




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A terrible thing but I wonder how the car goes wide open backing up?

I can imagine the driver may never fully recover from that.



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This same thing happened at Capitol in MD many years ago. In that case the stands were kind of behind the starting line and the car went into the stands. I think it was Don Nickolson. Sorry for the family in this case
 
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The NPK and other no prep promoters and tracks with 100s of drunk dope smoking idiots on the starting line need to take note of the tragedy but they wont
 
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^^^^^ THIS!
 
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Was just last week a car lost flexplate on and threw shrapnel into another car. Lucky nobody got hurt or killed there.
Big Steve is right about all the Dope Smoking idiots on the starting line and when someone gets killed we will all suffer the consequences of their stupidity.

We do what we can to make it as safe as possible but can never eliminate all danger.


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Hey guys when they are too stupid to move for guy with injected motor and zoomies rapping the throttle to get them to move. WTH do you do? Me I slammed it to the floor and let the Zoomies talk. yea they move quickly when they realize their butts are about to get run over. Worst part of TNT and NT races is the idiots on starting line having a party.

Like I said above this sounds more like a bad accident. Just makes you wonder how not more of it for the ones that should not be there in the first place.




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I saw the video on this incident on FB. It happened VERY QUICKLY. There were not a lot of people behind the car and this particular person was a crew member, (grandfather) from what I have been hearing.

Very tragic and I cant imagine what the driver is feeling at this point, especially if it was his grandfather.

Prayers to all involved.
 
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GEEEEEEZ Brutal ! I can't imagine what happened....I'd say he pushed the go pedal instead of the brake pedal but I have to assume it's a hand brake in that car. What a horrific day at the races..


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Someone commented that this was the cause.


The cause of the accident was a bolt that hold the blower hat to the blower case backed out and got sucked into the blower case where it punched a big hole in the case. Big vacuum leak. That`s why it took off.



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I read the same thing. I can see the hole in the case causing it to rev up from being lean and at the same time the mechanical fuel pump also speeds up feeding fuel to the engine causing it to take off like it did.
 
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Hey guys when they are too stupid to move for guy with injected motor and zoomies rapping the throttle to get them to move. WTH do you do? Me I slammed it to the floor and let the Zoomies talk. yea they move quickly when they realize their butts are about to get run over. Worst part of TNT and NT races is the idiots on starting line having a party.

Like I said above this sounds more like a bad accident. Just makes you wonder how not more of it for the ones that should not be there in the first place.

And some of the post I see you put I would do the absolute opposite of anything you did
 
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That is terrible and can only imagine what his family is going through right now.
I would like to know more about how it happened in hopes of preventing it in the future. Did not look like throttle blades went wide open and also will not be a Monday Morning quarterback and say something should have been done different. I have an opinion but for this time I will keep it to myself. Everything looked normal until it wasn't.

As bad as that is they are actually lucky it was not worse.


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Originally posted by wideopen231:
Hey guys when they are too stupid to move for guy with injected motor and zoomies rapping the throttle to get them to move. WTH do you do? Me I slammed it to the floor and let the Zoomies talk. yea they move quickly when they realize their butts are about to get run over. Worst part of TNT and NT races is the idiots on starting line having a party.

Like I said above this sounds more like a bad accident. Just makes you wonder how not more of it for the ones that should not be there in the first place.


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This is a video to learn from. It`s not intended to disrespect anyone. Do not watch it if it`s going to offend you.

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I saw the video,but now it looks like Facebook took it down.Someone must have been offended.Yes,it was graphic,but maybe it would have woke some people up about how dangerous it can be to congregate on the starting line.
 
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It was just a freak accident and chances are something like that ever happening again are slim to none.





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