A pair of Top Dragster racers were uninjured in a freak accident during qualifying for the NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida on Friday morning, when each got loose in their own lane and crashed.

Pennsylvania racer Kara Stricker and Florida’s Kathy Woeber, running in the left and right lanes, respectively, were the first pair of cars out in Top Dragster after NHRA officials had cleared overnight rains off the Gainesville Raceway racing surface. As the two drivers motored beyond half track, both got loose and took abrupt turns into the guardrail; Woeber striking the wall first nearly nose-first just beyond 1,000-feet, while Stricker began to fishtail at nearly the same spot, finally slamming into the wall just past the 1/4-mile blocks.

Fortunately, both drivers were able to climb from their heavily damaged race cars. Although a cause for the accidents are unknown, the Gainesville area has seen a hefty amount of rain over the last few days, and those in the racing community believe the track may have been ‘weeping’ water from the ground underneath.

As exceedingly rare as a pair of unrelated crashes on the same run are, the NHRA has actually had two of them in the same class within the last two years. In August of 2014, Monte Green and Don Kritzky both crashed at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at the Brainerd International Raceway in Minnesota.

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