NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
who gets a sticky, slushy tired rear heavy drag car that far sideways at that speed? i wouldnt do that in a stock 'v8 anything' with sticky rears...
glad hes ok, theres $50,000 for a good body plus the labor...
-J0N
I wonder if they'll put the full episode up on Youtube, they did the first episode last week.
Wow. 
I think it was an issue of location. He shut it down but then you notice the back wheels start hopping. He had to start turning to avoid the wall. The combination of a very big engine mounted very high up and wheels leaving the ground while turning turned into what we saw. They should have a found a nice smooth 1/4 mile to do the filming.
Holy carp!
The hopping back wheels were from uneven road surface?
Ouch. 
In reply to paranoid_android74:
I think so it looked the infield of the track. Bob said they were at Irwindale and the wall behind him says Irwindale speedway which is an oval/figure 8 track. Looks like they crossed the middle of the figure 8 and I bet the crossover is pretty bumpy. The weird thing is according to the googles Irwindale also has a NHRA drag strip. Seems whomever made the choice to not use that is regretting it.
Always loved that car. Wouldn't be surprised if Jay gets it fixed for him.
You know what really makes that location odd to me... that oval track has a 1/8 mile strip on the grounds with more room to do that kind of thing. Don't know why they chose the inner oval with a decent chunk of less room to do wheelies.
For reference, the inner oval is about 1/8 mile at its widest point. That includes the banks. The 1/8 mile strip is on the south side of the oval and, including the safety run-out, is almost 1/4 mile.
that location seems really questionable, seemed like he felt he needed to turn to avoid a possible tire wall.
holy E36 M3 the berkeleying hell
jay is lucky he kept his arm in.
That is not how that was supposed to go.
patgizz wrote: jay is lucky he kept his arm in.
Looks like he pulled it in just in time
Yeah, you know how they tell you not to put your arm out the window at the race track? That's why. Wow.
Looking at the drag strip in Google Maps, it doesn't look very photogenic, I suspect that's why they didn't use it.
Notice Leno's face when the driver mentions what his wife's going to say. Pretty sure that look shows what Leno's wife's going to say.
No rear suspension.....
I am glad no one was hurt. But man, what a ride!
I think the moguls tossed the car's balance a bit.
That was so poorly thought out, at first I questioned whether it was staged. Surely not.
I noticed it was not the first Hemi Under Glass.
And that, boys and girls, is why every legitimate racing school teaches you to grab hold of the shoulder harness the instant you realize you can't save it...
What I noticed what their professionalism and their attitudes.
The as soon as the car came to a stop he let out an entirely underwhelming "dammit" next concern was is my passenger OK, then he shut the car down. all in a second.
Jay checked the status of the driver, then slipped right back into the role of entertainer.
spitfirebill wrote: I noticed it was not the first Hemi Under Glass.
The Hemi Under Glass was a series of exhibition cars. They were built for every model year from 1965- 1975 (and I am pretty sure multiples were built of many). There were also many tribute cars built, including a '67 built by Riggles.
The car rolled in that video was the original '69, not a tribute. Riggles has purchased another body to repair.
That could have ended VERY badly.
WildScotsRacing wrote: And that, boys and girls, is why every legitimate racing school teaches you to grab hold of the shoulder harness the instant you realize you can't save it...
Yeah, I'm asking myself why the driver continues to hold onto the wheel. Seems to me that if the tire hit at a certain angle it would rip the wheel out of the guys hands and maybe break an arm in the process.
But Ol' Jay just earned himself some brownie points on how he handles himself.
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