Longtime small-tire racer Bobby Dodrill was unhurt in a frightening crash Friday evening at Kentucky’s U.S. 60 Dragway in his fan-favorite “Miss Misery” four-wheel-drive Chevrolet C10 pickup.
Dodrill was competing in the No-Time Pro Truck class at DuckX Productions’ Battle For The Thrones event in his unique screw-blown machine when he lost control just off the starting line on a qualifying pass. The truck spun around and struck the wall driver’s side first, violently catapulting onto its side before sliding to a stop. Dodrill climbed from the battered machine under his own power. It was the Tennessee resident’s first outing in Miss Misery in almost two years.
“I’m absolutely heartbroken. I’m devastated that I’ve totaled this truck,” Dodrill said hours after the crash. “I’m not really sure what happened. I do know that it wasn’t because it’s four-wheel-drive. I’m so sick of hearing that. The truck is still in four-wheel-drive, it did not break an axle, and it had nothing to do with it being four-wheel-drive. I’m good, I’m not hurt, and the truck held up well. It saved my life, I’m sure of it. My 80-year-old mother came with me for the first time ever, and this happened right in front of her — she was absolutely devastated.”
“It’s drag racing,” he added. “I’ve built brand new trucks before for people, and they had something happen, and they ball them up on the first pass. It happens, and we all run that risk when we get in the seat. You see cars get wrecked every weekend doing exactly what mine did, get loose, get out of the groove, shake the tires, turn sideways, and hit the wall.”
Dodrill has spent the better part of two decades testing, refining, and upgrading the C10, writing the instruction manual as he goes for how to make a high-horsepower 4×4 vehicle work. He’s certainly no stranger to the mechanical challenges, nor to overcoming incidents like this one, he’s rebuilt the truck from other accidents, in 2011, and again in 2018. But this one was the worst.
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Dodrill unloaded the wreckage at his home on Saturday and began his evaluation. He had noted Friday evening that “without some sponsorship help, I don’t see me ever recovering from this one. This one was bad and it tore up a lot of stuff.”
Thankfully for his legions of friends and followers, 24 hours brought clarity about the situation and the future.
‘We are going to fix it,” Dodrill said Saturday evening. “I’m going to order tubing this week, and we are going to build a brand new chassis. We’re going to try to make No Mercy in the fall at SGMP. It will be lighter. We’re going to go back drag racing, and to the haters that don’t like it: I’m going to make it four-wheel-drive just for you.”
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