Sigh. Baby steps man Baby steps. Stop letting your ego and testis dictate your safety. It took me years and 3 ICU stays before i fanally learned. Big power..BABY steps. cause when it hooks wrong into a wall or drops a mount at full tilt ,its over before you can even react. And then you get lucky, live, and wake up in an ICU with family all red eyed and exausted from waiting 2 days for you to come around and make it. Best wishes warrior. Baby steps. Set small goals before a full run, STEPS
I have to believe with that tire shake he didnt even see the wheel leaving and with a new blower combo, probably figure its driving different, but cars do tend to drive on 3 wheel at any given time. So i can see why he kept his foot in it alittle to long.
That's what I'm thinking. Front end is so light under load and didn't see the tire exit the wheel. Probably had no idea it was gone until the parachute deployed.
Personally...I wouldn't run modern slicks on an old style dragster like that. They're WAY too sticky which means tire shake...or wheelie WAY down the track. Back in the day the fuel altered's would smoke the hard compound tires for most of the run which is slower but also tends to help keep the front tires down where they can actually have an impact on where the car is going.
@@LeskoBrandon-kv9is I didn't say anything was right or wrong...just that I wouldn't run wrinkle-wall slicks on an old short wheelbase car like that. You do you and have fun! Maybe after you shake the car apart a few times you'll come to agree with my thoughts. Or not. Be safe Brother!
@@recoilrob324 We run many events a year ... all cars use 'wrinkle-wall' tires . It is often said "you can't drive a car that is shaking , but you can drive a car that is spinning" So yes - shaking is a concern and wheel speed is the cure . I don't know a thing about the car in this video , but every car that we run against has to be certified to run in their class . We are certed down to 6.0 - they may appear vintage , but yet we must meet current safety standards . If you have not already done so ... look up 'extreme top fuel' . Quite a show !! And it's all done on a 12" tire .
Seen one similar to this down in Florida about 12 years ago.. old 32ish flord.. super nice..WAS! Destroyed the entire car! He said he finshed it the night before, paint wasn't even cured.. DESTROYED IT. STRAIGHT INTO THE WALL ABOUT 300 FEET OUT. Tires spun and he didn't let out.
Having wrecked my 93" wheelbase T Roadster drag car at 128 thru the trap when left front spindle decided to come off the axle...the first thing I did, as a passenger, at that point was to kill my electrical.
If your not on you talant levels the car , wreckage is what will be the out come,no show offing, or none pro people around you ok, thanks BigAl California p.s.
Call me crazy but I think I probably would have shut it down just as soon as I lost the front tire, I sure wouldn't have taken it to the end that's for sure
>>Huge Wreck!<< Well, what do you expect? On any car, the front wheels do most of the braking and all of the steering. Model A style front suspension, bald skinny tires, no front brakes....so no handling or front-braking ability. Only an idiot would drive such a rig over 35 MPH.
@@billmiller7138 Oh, the rules of physics don't apply to "drag cars"? The characteristics I mentioned makes them inherently "Crashmobiles"...and they constantly prove me right.
@@frankschwartz7405 wow! I’ve been driving altereds and dragsters and funny cars with “bald skinny front tires and no front brakes” 😂 since 1970. Finished and ran my latest dragster this past Memorial Day weekend so I suppose I’ve been disobeying the laws of physics all these years. 😂😂😂 haven’t failed to stop without hitting anything yet. Engineering, And oh yeah, drag chutes!
Front wheel comes off and the driver stays in it, constantly accelerating. Even if the throttle hung open how about a kill switch? How about brakes? This guy shouldn't be anywhere near a track. He could have very easily crashed into the other car.
Driver side spindle sheared off at 100' out, then he drove it the rest of the way, after 1/8mile slowed it down and it drove into the wall, causing the other front spindle to break off on impact.
@@tireballastserviceofflorid7771 There are a few reasons why lyle's advice is good . 1) the whole burnout process will happen at a much lower speed ie:safer. 2) the front tires won't be able to drag water forward of the water box. We run a front engine dragster and we pull thru the water very slowly , stop just past and then do the burnout . Works perfect . The idea of a high speed burnout makes no sense (at least to me :>)
@LeskoBrandon-kv9is Well, I have seen 1000 burn outs 80 different ways. 95% roll through and light it up. And 99% of those are good runs. I see your point but a proper burn out fast or slow heats the tires and cleans the tracks. Not sure it is as critical as you might think. About 600 things could have caused that wheel hop. I probably would have shut it down way early and ran again.
@@tireballastserviceofflorid7771 Yessir ! There are many ways that work well . We prefer the slower speed burnout as it lessens the chance of the 'last 20 feet wiggle' that often occurs . One thing for sure ... if a tire falls off the run is over !!
@@bradleyvantassal8328I know him pretty well, used to pit next to me. I only went twice last year, I also know he doesn’t race out there nowhere near as much as he used to though.
