I hate it when this happens!
 

http://www.webitnetwork.com/elle/img...ster_brake.jpg

:crazy: :hmm: :crazy:

OMG.....just wow.... Now that my kinda torque machine :D

Seriously though....thats just crazy....imagine the force, and traction, necessary to do that...man....

They must have cut back on frame material in order to save weight.

Just imagine how scared the driver is....and the sound that must of made.

If I had to guess, it wasn't that they cut back on material to save weight, it was probably metal fatigue, stress cracks, etc.

holy SHIT

It looks like it was caused by excessive rear wheel traction!

Car wants to wheelie, frame doesn't want to respond quickly enough, car breaks itself in half :)

dammit.
that would be so frightening sitting in that little cockpit when your ridiculously fast vehicle splits in half.
would have been worth the price of admission though to see that... (was that a little insensitive??)

What i would like to know is: What happened after this picture?

A wreck. The driver probably walked out with no major issues. Probably.

My guess is that the driver was fine. He is on the fron half. I bet that half just went skidding to the end of the track, while the engine and wheels went spinning and flipping around causing destruction to everything behind him. Hes probably fine, minus the skidmarks he left in his clothes...

Events like that are precisely why drag racers stopped using Slingshot rails. With the driver placed in front of the engine, instead of behind it like on the old rails, you tend to leave much of the carnage behind by simple virtue of speed and position. You also have MAJOR scattershields between your backside and the engine.

Peryn's right though, bet he had to have his firesuit steam-cleaned.

Re: I hate it when this happens!
 

Wow I have seen them go stright up but never seen them hold in half.

how scary

its just plain scary the power those cars make, i know i would be scared to be behind the wheel of one

well when your cranking out thousands of horsepower, and forget to properly stabilize your frame, this is the result