Another top fuel chassis failure

Another top fuel chassis failure

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Coatesy351

Original Poster:

861 posts

132 months

Wednesday 10th June 2015
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Phil lamattina's car breaks in two.

http://youtu.be/bAcDFPJCwO0

Tet

1,196 posts

204 months

Wednesday 10th June 2015
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New chassis, too, with very few runs on it.

tom405

38 posts

110 months

Wednesday 10th June 2015
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Bit worrying for it to happen again so soon… are they just making too much power in the NHRA? Or is it something to do with the way the chassis are being made?

Tet

1,196 posts

204 months

Wednesday 10th June 2015
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That was ANDRA, not NHRA. The cause of the accident isn't yet known, so while there is obviously speculation about the reasons for the crash, we don't know at the moment.

tom405

38 posts

110 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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Oh well good to see they expect him to make a good recovery, hopefully they will find out what happened

Pope

2,638 posts

247 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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As an outsider with no real knowledge on the chassis construction it looked like there was a failure due to a combination of downforce at the front and the torque from the rear literally ripping it apart ??