We first saw this accident from the Doomsday No Prep earlier this week from the vantage point of a spectator’s cell phone who was standing mere feet from impact along the fence, and while this angle provided by the crew at 1320Video doesn’t quite illustrate the brutality as well, you still get a pretty good feel for what the wooden-post, steel rail guardrail did to this grudge Chevelle.

In this clip, we’re introduced to the Real Deal Racing team and their big-block powered, nitrous-assisted Chevelle, which is making its maiden voyage at a no prep racing event during the Doomsday race at the Northstar Dragway in Denton, Texas. During the first round of Big Tire eliminations, driver Joe McDonald, Jr. in the Real Deal machine gets loose near the stripe and crosses over in front of Jesse Freeman in his naturally-aspirated third-gen Camaro, striking the guardrail nearly head-on. But the car doesn’t bounce off the wall as it would with concrete, nor does it plow right through or over it as is often the result with steel, but rather, impacts and is tossed back onto the racing surface as though it struck the walls of a children’s bounce house.

While it could be argued that the ‘give’ in the steel guardrail — a form of race track confinement we wholeheartedly decry — actually lessened the forces of the impact for the driver, the virtual explosion and hurling of the wooden post that once held the railing in place toward the crowd is certainly not a good thing.

What’s easily missed here if you focus only on the Chevelle careening across the lanes is the like-a-boss driving job that Freeman displayed in his Camaro, as he hung a quick left in his car that isn’t exactly designed for evasive road course-esque maneuvers and never missed a beat in driving around the Real Deal machine.