Race car crashes and bursts into flames at 300 mph — and its legendary driver somehow survives (video)

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/24/race-car-crashes-and-bursts-into-flames-at-300-mph-and-its-legendary-driver-somehow-survives-video.html

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Bruce Wayne has entered the race!

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Potential shorter headlines:

  • A Force to be reckoned with
  • His life Force is legendary
  • The Force is strong in this one
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Or slightly longer
I’m One With The Force and The Force is With Me

Also


Guy Martin survived.

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His three daughters Ashley, Brittany, and Courtney are also Forces to be reckoned with…

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I haven’t been paying attention to NHRA for many years, but I do remember John Force, and that he’s still driving funny cars is insane. Glad to see that he made it out of that one.

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The moment of the Force

The product of the force

The distance between the point of application of the force and the fulcrum

(They cant all be good jokes)

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I remember watching him when I was a kid. Here’s a photo I took of his car at Sears Point in 1998:

It’s wild he’s still racing funny cars and that he can continue to maintain the kind of reaction times needed for drag racing even in his 70s.

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