This is just the reason some of us will not attend events where street stunts are performed.
I applaud those who offer track events coinsiding with car shows.
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I agree. This could have been done in a MUCH safer way. No reason why ANYONE should be so close to a car like the one involved. I believe that was a Pro Nitro Funny Car. A little different than a Cobra burn out. But, both cars can make safe burn outs too.
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I'll sit back on this one and await someone to post one of the following:
1: "I know what I'm doing and can more than handle my cobra".
2: "It can never happen to me, my car is 100% safe"
3: "Helmet and safety equipment, why does my passenger or I need that crap"
4: "It's a government conspiracy, nobody can tell me how to drive my car, especially at a charity event"
5: "It's safe, or why would they allow us to continue to do it year after year".
6-99: Feel free create your own excuses to try and justify what has the potential for a loss of life, after all, you are safe and secure in your car(s) while others do not have that luxury.
You want to race, you want to do burnouts to stroke your ego and the crowds, do it at a track where your car has to pass a tech inspection before it's allowed to be raced or exhibit any speed passes just for the crowd(s).
The life you save might be that of a loved one, or your own.
Just my two cents worth, I'll sit back and watch the fireworks now from those who fall into lines 1-5 and above.
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[quote=Powershift1038] I believe that was a Pro Nitro Funny Car. QUOTE]
I think it was a Pro Comp car or Pro Stock, no Funny Car. Just as stupid to do, what appeared in the video as almost a full pass. Organizers aside, the owner/driver of the car should have known full well the potential dangers and not even attempted or attended with it. Totally asinine.
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NASCAR has taken critiscism for their " debris " cautions, and limiting the top speed with restictor plate racing, safety aspect for the drivers, pit crew etc ., etc., AND the fans in the stadium.
Risk is just too great to take a chance or make a mistake not to have a caution.
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It was also reported that the guy was a veteran racer of 20 years or more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This just proves $hit can happen even to professional/veteran drivers, much less the guy that drives his over powered car once a month.....burnouts and high speed passes belong on a race track,not a street lined with people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would guess monday the multitude of lawsuits against everyone invovled in this event will start being filed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMHO there is no reason,charity or not, for these kinds of things to take place on city streets.............
At every "open track event" and most Mustang track events I have attended, they always have the "kiddie rides" or parade laps were people can do ride alongs at a safe controlled speed in a safe car and enviroment, on the parade laps, folks can drive their own cars on the track behind a "pace car" at a safe speed for all to enjoy.....
That I gladly support and have always given rides to youngsters, I think I enjoy as much if not more than they do, it's a safe way to share your car and the track with people..............
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1: "I know what I'm doing and can more than handle my cobra".
2: "It can never happen to me, my car is 100% safe"
3: "Helmet and safety equipment, why does my passenger or I need that crap"
4: "It's a government conspiracy, nobody can tell me how to drive my car, especially at a charity event"
5: "It's safe, or why would they allow us to continue to do it year after year
I've heard every one of these excuses before, I can't find it right now, but there is a video clip of a blue Cobra leaving in what looks like some kind of parade, he "got on it" before he had the car pointed straight and lost it and ended on over the curb and onto the grass shoulder, luckily,there was no one in the area at the time............
I think it was a Pro Comp car or Pro Stock, no Funny Car. Just as stupid to do, what appeared in the video as almost a full pass. Organizers aside, the owner/driver of the car should have known full well the potential dangers and not even attempted or attended with it. Totally asinine.
Oops, yea.. didn't mean to call it a funny car.
Having now watched the video... Good God. Totally asinine is the best way to describe that incident.
This was hardly a "burnout", it looked more like a street race with a 6 second Pro Modified race car to me. Let's not even compare a 500 - 700 horsepowered Cobra doing a "burnout" for a half a car length to this Pro Modified race car doing an 1/8 mile "drag run" down a packed city street.
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This was hardly a "burnout", it looked more like a street race with a 6 second Pro Modified race car to me. Let's not even compare a 500 - 700 horsepowered Cobra doing a "burnout" for a half a car length to this Pro Modified race car doing an 1/8 mile "drag run" down a packed city street.
So you don't think the same would apply at any other Cobra venue where people are doing burnouts? What happens when the half shaft on a Cobra IRS snaps and the inexperienced driver does not know how to react? What if the throttle sticks???
Look at this video of such a driver trying to look cool.....What if there were rows of people standing where he went up the curb?
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With all due respect Mr. McMahon, the gentleman driving Cobra number 48 in your video clearly "get's on it" in a left turn and continues to speed up until he crashes into the curb.
I hardly see this as the same as a Cobra stopping in a parade and doing a "small burnout". Most stuck throttles are at 75 - 100% of the gas pedal being engaged and I would expect that most Cobra owners can tap the gas and get a small burnout.
My opinion of the Tennessee tragedy is that this event shouldn't have allowed ANY car to "drag race" through a packed city street. We have several parades in the Kansas City area and a 350 - 700 horsepower Mustang or Corvette stopping and doing a half a car length "burnout" and a Pro Modified 6 second Mustang or Corvette doind a 140+ MPH "drag run" are very different.
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