Motorsport is dangerous, especially when you're trying to funnel 1,000hp's worth of supercharged, racing-fuelled drag racing excess through a faulty clutch or transmission.
Fortunately the drag crowd are used to explosions like this one, and scatter-shields are routinely installed around the transmissions to collect the shrapnel before it reaches the driver. It must be quite alarming, even so...
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