A while back we were talking about dirt tracks and stock cars. I mentioned most guy using sheets of cellophane on full face helmets. They’re called “tare offs”. When somebody in front spins mud through the wire screen windshield, you pull off the top layer of cellophane so you can see again. My buddy always joked about having “tare offs” for your shorts sometimes. This instant drives home that point. I’m glad he was able to save it, but I’ll bet he wrecked his shorts!😀 Reon
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Double lucky!😀he avoided catastrophe, and the right lane smoked the tires! What was it Petty said about racing? “I’d rather be lucky than good!”😀 Reon
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
Double lucky!😀he avoided catastrophe, and the right lane smoked the tires! What was it Petty said about racing? “I’d rather be lucky than good!”😀 Reon
He also said if you aren't cheating you're not racing.
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Was that Petty? I thought Smokey Yunick said that! 😀 Smokey was quite the innovator!
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"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
That drogue chute saved his ass…and his car. He kept his wits about him enough to let the chute go at the right time.
I worked on the medic unit at SIR, Seattle International Raceway, back in the 90’s moonlighting on the weekends I wasn’t on shift at the station. It was a lot of fun even though I’m really not into racing, mostly because it was never boring and oftentimes it was a hell of a lot of trauma experience condensed into a beautiful sunny weekend at the racetrack. There was rarely a weekend when we didn’t airlift someone from the track to Harborview….thanks to the street bike racers. There’s something fundamentally different about the work there compared to being called out of the station. Even though trauma is trauma and it gets treated exactly the same way it was different because most of the time we SAW the accident as it happened and we watched the patient as they flew through the air or got run over or whatever the case may be. When we were called out of the station we got a short report (if we were lucky) from 911 dispatch and we had a rough idea of what we were facing but when you watch it happen you immediately know that what you’re gonna see is gonna be ugly and you don’t have time to “mentally prepare” yourself for what you’re going to do and see.
With the top fuel funny cars and the drag racing cars they were pretty stout with the roll bars, 5 point restraints etc so our concerns were a little different, mostly because fire was a factor and the injuries to the drivers were usually less severe. The street bike races however were crazy. I saw guys doing 110mph++ lose control on a turn and slide, in their leathers thankfully, that suffered little injury. I saw guys lose control on a turn going much slower and they would suffer grave injuries so there was no predicting how they fared until we got there and assessed their injuries.
Far and away the most difficult assignment were the kid’s racing dirt bikes. The difficulty was not seeing the kids hurt, although there was nothing “fun” about that, because their injuries were not “serious”…usually a broken bone or deep lacerations or road rash or a combination of those things. The difficult part of the kids dirt bike races were the ass hole fathers who had ZERO compassion or empathy for their injured son. Rarely did I or my crew ever have to deal harshly with “bystanders” whether parents or “friends”, even if the genesis of the injuries were from mutual combat we didn’t usually have problems with them. The parents of kids who rode motorcross were different. I had several “fathers” hauled off the track despite the fact that it was their son laying there injured. They would curse their boy and call him a pussy, a wimp, a worthless son of a bitch who shouldn’t be racing and every other miserable example of bad parenting one can imagine. The poor kid would be laying there with an obvious broken arm or an open compound tib/fib fracture and the bastard father would be screaming and insulting his boy. I can keep my cool and my emotions under control in the worst situations but I lost my sh.it a couple of times at the inhuman behavior and child abuse/neglect/endangerment that I witnessed firsthand. I was much younger then and my understanding of human behavior was pretty thin. I’ve always tended to have rose colored glasses and an optimistic outlook but those motorcross races were my first real exposure, face to face exposure, to evil. There is just no other word to describe the guys who reacted the way those dipshits reacted to their son being “seriously” injured and the words they unleashed on them…EVIL!
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Was that Petty? I thought Smokey Yunick said that! 😀 Smokey was quite the innovator!
Smokey Yunick. That dude made cheating an art form. One shouldn't admire a cheater but you couldn't help but respect his genius. Ha. He made a game of it. Half the time he was cheating and they knew it, but it would take them 2 months to figure out, or find out how. And when they did it was just another feather in his cap of a long list of noteworthy and historical stories.
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I've seen these videos before- crazy air-time in the Camaro.
The engine in the green mustang is a 5.0 coyote built by RealStreet Performance. It makes 2500-3000HP on a hub dyno depending on how high they turn it up. It's a factory block.
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Was that Petty? I thought Smokey Yunick said that! 😀 Smokey was quite the innovator!
An extra-long, extra-wide fuel line was another trick. At ten feet long and two inches in diameter—nearly four times wider than standard—Yunick’s clever feed line from tank to carburetor held just enough extra gas to let a car stay out, running a bit longer, when everyone else had to pit. NASCAR eventually caught that one, too.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee
