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Woman dies after being hit by tire from NHRA crash |
zymurgist |
Feb 22 2010, 10:36 AM
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Feb 22 2010, 12:54 PM
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Here's an interesting post from the "Autoweek" website from someone that says they were at the race:
"geoffsdad wrote: We attended the race and my friends and I were not impressed with the facility at all. There are almost no safety features of any kind and Firebird seems like a track more suitable for club racing than pro-classes. How this unfolded was the two cars did their burnouts and backed up to stage when rain caused the starter to shut both cars down due to rain. Those two cars were then sent to the back of first round eliminations and when they returned they again did their burnouts, staged and then the race was run and almost immediately at the hit of the throttle Antron's car shook violently and lost the wheel. I'm not saying that I'm sure the two burnouts back to back caused the problem but in the second round Morgan Lucas and Steve Chrisman suffered the same issue with rain after their burnouts and were told to shut their cars off. Upon the resumption of their race the cars were restarted and immediately staged with no burnout. Lucas went 3.88, only .07 seconds off the ET that won Tony Schumacher the top starting position, a pretty remarkable pass considering the lack of a burnout. I've never known a fuel car to make a pass in competition without a burnout and wonder if the decision was made to avoid a second burnout over concerns that a similar failure might happen. I also wonder if a catch fence might have contained the loose wheel somehow. Additionally, after his win in round one Pro Stock driver Greg Anderson was extremely critical of the racing surface complaining that he went sideways through the timing lights on the big end. Several others were critical of the racing surface as well which may be the reason that the remaining Pro Stock elimination rounds for the Firebird race will actually be held at the NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway during qualifying. I feel that Firebird needs improvements badly! 2/22/2010 11:14 AM EST " I have been at the Firebird track and kind of agree that it is more of a "club" track. Any thoughts? |
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