Check those lug nuts, see video Options

[URY914]

http://www.teamjamoto.com/dixeregionpage.htm

This is why there are tech inspections. Maybe he was too busy puttin' on those race shoes.....

[mudfoot76]

I saw this on Jalopnik last night. Apparently his new track wheels required non-stock fitting lug nuts. One of the commentators was at the event and wrote that they were torqued to "spec", but the fit was off just enough that they sheared off once lateral loads were applied (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

This type of accident gives me the creeps. I often do tech inspections for our DE, and I would feel terrible if I let a car through and this happened. If I know a car has track tires, but pulls up to tech with their street ones on, I won't give them the final OK until I can check the car with track wheels mounted.

[ConeDodger]

I saw this on Jalopnik last night. Apparently his new track wheels required non-stock fitting lug nuts. One of the commentators was at the event and wrote that they were torqued to "spec", but the fit was off just enough that they sheared off once lateral loads were applied (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

This type of accident gives me the creeps. I often do tech inspections for our DE, and I would feel terrible if I let a car through and this happened. If I know a car has track tires, but pulls up to tech with their street ones on, I won't give them the final OK until I can check the car with track wheels mounted.

I am not sure I buy the part about the "sheared off once lateral loads were applied". In the video they are finding and counting lug nuts and were one short. How could they be sheared off if they are finding them and not commenting that they were sheared.
A guy in the Minnesota Autosports Club named Don Gettinger once had a front suspension member break and lost the wheel and the part of the suspension that was outboard. That was spectacular. Not something tech would pick up on...