[vettestr]

My prayers go out to the Kalitta family and all those they have touched.

The chutes on these cars are attached to the chassis with the pac only mounted on the body and up in the air stream. Fire resistant coverings are also required but simply can not survive the fire/heat at speed. Today's tech. can not overcome the blowtorch like heat of these fires and still be light enough to be a parachute.

Brakes on these cars are only for lower speeds, stopping the tire from rotating (brakes) is a no no at speed because the car has more forward force than the tires contact force to the pavement. Grabbing a handful of brake with slicks on the rear and a skinny tire on front locks the brake very easy. The sidewalls of the rear slick wad up and start to pogo up and down on rear sending car off the ground for many yards at a time only to touch down and pogo again.

Sand traps work at lower speed but car skips like a rock on a pond until slow enough to start resisting the car and then not ideal to say the least.

With that much fire and smoke a driver can not see a darn thing and feels chutes are gone and not working, you will try to keep car against the wall to scrub speed if you are on it but everything happens soooooo fast. RIP my brother.