There are multitudes of videos around the web of drag racing accidents from all sorts of angles, but it’s not very often you get the view the carnage from inside the race car, and even more rare that you have a chance to see things unfold from the dashboards’ perspective looking back at the driver.
Tracy Grimm, behind the wheel of the Speedfab Performance dragster, went for a wild ride at the Orlando Speedworld Dragway in Florida during a testing session, and the camera caught it all. The Mike Bos-built dragster is owned by Mark Peycke and powered by a turbocharged Ecotec engine capable of powering the car well into the six-second range at over 200 MPH.
According to Tracy, the car appears to have lost one of the three injectors in a given cylinder. At that point, with only 2/3 of the fuel entering the cylinder, it burned up the water jacket and built up enough pressure to blow the two gallon coolant tank behind the driver bulkhead apart. With two gallons of oil and water spewing onto the back tires of such a powerful race car, Tracy was just along for the ride at that point. Despite his efforts to save it, the car turns sideways and rolls once, coming to rest on its top. The Speedworld Dragway safety crew was right on top of the accident, helping the uninjured by certainly dejected Grimm from the race car.
The car reportedly received mostly cosmetic damage to the wheels, wing, and roll cage, and repairs are already underway to get the car back out to the track.