Drag racing is a non-contact motorsport when everything goes right, but when two cars get tangled up, things can get dicey in a hurry. Small tire no prep racer Cody Jones has made countless passes in his Mustang where things went as they should, but at the Texas Motorplex during Redemption 10.0 this past weekend, that changed a bit. Jones got a bit more than he bargained for when his semi-final drag race turned into more of a stock car race after he got tangled up with Tony Thorn’s Camaro.

When Jones and Thorn each let off their transbrake when the tree dropped it looked like a typical race until Thorn’s Camaro went into a big wheelstand and made a move towards the lane Jones was occupying. It just so happened that Jones made a slight move to the left at the same time Thorn made his move to the right, and the cars came together and banged doors, Talledega-style.

Everything happened so quick, Jones didn’t know what was going on until he had a window-full of Thorn’s Camaro.

“I didn’t see his car coming towards my lane until the last second. The next thing I knew, we hit and I was fighting my car to stay straight. I’ve never traded paint with another race car, it was a new one for me that’s for sure,” Jones says.

With time to reflect now, Jones knows how lucky he and Thorn got in this situation and all he got out of this was some torn up body panels to make garage art out of.

“The impact wasn’t that hard considering it could have been worse — it was like a bump. When it happened my bullhorn got hung up in his car somehow so we were literally stuck together. People thought I was trying to push him back into his lane, but we were just hooked together,” Jones explains.

Check out the wild camera angle from 660 Films that shows the entire crash from a 360-degree camera mounted on the top of Jones’ Mustang.