[Land-speed] John Force's Accident

[Doug Anderson]

     Christ.   they,    -and we are so fortunate tonight...

      easily,.......       it could have become much, much worse.

    Thank God.


cheers, "Dirt Track Doug"  in exile in So. New York,


  -22 miles from Square Deal Raceway,

  -21 miles east of Action Park Speedway,

   -63 miles northeast of Champion Speedway

   -105 miles south of "the  Syracuse  Mile" ...

   -265 miles north of Williams Grove Speedway

   -2325 miles due east of the Bonneville Salt Flats

         and never more than a few feet from a cold one

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> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:33:33 -0700
> From: drmayf at mayfco.com
> To: land-speed at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Land-speed] John Force's Accident
>
> I just rewatched the accident all over again from several different
> vantage points. ANd I am sure that everyone who sees it will have a
> different view and opinion. Right at the finish line, Kenny hit the
> timing light boxes and lights. One box actually went behind John's car
> but other stuff, like maybe the light itself bounced off the far wall
> and came back towards JOhn's car on the driver's side. Both cars were
> past the finish line. And it looked like a clutch explosion or the tires
> shook the car to pieces. Both rear tires were deflated before it came
> apart.  Could the thingy that went across the track and back at John cut
> the tires? Yeah to me it could have.  Then after the chutes were out on
> both cars the Castrol car came apart. The rear continued down track
> while the front moved over and crashed Kenny and knocked his body off as
> well. Then the rear of John's car drifted back to the wall on Kenney'
> side where it came to rest.  When they got John out and the rear section
> was on the transporter, there was no frame pieces remaining from the
> front edge of the seat forward.  Some how I seriously doubt that a
> parachute yank would have separated the car like that. So it was some
> sort of mechanical failure which broke that part: either violent tire
> shake due to flat tires or explosion. Since John is reasonably ok for
> such a wreck, I am sure he will have a pretty fare story of what
> happened from his perspective.
>
>
> No flames, no arguments, just my opinion and that ain't worth much.
>
> mayf.

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