Originally Posted by racephoto1:
Left rear coming apart would be no big deal. If the right rear would have taken a bite when he was shutting off the car it would have been a whole lot worse. Nothing like being drug around by a race car.
I beg to differ....have you seen how a blown tire tears the body to pieces in NASCAR? Winged cars frequently end up with destroyed wings when a tire comes apart at speed, even if they don't flip or hit the fence.....OK, thin sheet metal right, no biggie...one of my coworkers blew a tire in a ford 1ton van while running 65MPH....it tore the rear fender almost off that van..buckled the floorboard a ton, made a heckuva mess....tires exploding during inflation kill people, that's at 35-50 PSI.
Even the guys from the show J@ck@$s wouldn't be stupid enough to sign up for a beating like that...haha
Kudos to the guy who reached in and hit the kill switch...guys like you make guys like me feel better about strapping in and gassing one up.