Sportsman drag racer Amy Taub, the daughter of Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod driver Tim Taub, went for the ride of a lifetime — and pulled off what will easily go in the running for the save of the year — at New Jersey’s Atco Raceway over the weekend, when her dragster spun a full 360 degrees on the race track and didn’t hit a thing. Not a scratch anywhere.

Taub’s dragster, which runs in the 7-teens in the quarter-mile and tops 190 mph at the stripe, was on a typical pass until about half track, when the transmission failed to shift into high gear. Taub pedaled the car once, got back into the throttle, and around the car went before she even knew what was happening. Then, without ever climbing up on two wheels or touching a timing block or the guardrail, it spins a full revolution and points back down the race track in the same direction that it was headed. The whole scene, captured on Taub’s in-car camera, is very reminiscent of Larry Dixon’s spin in Australia earlier this season, in which one of the drive wheels broke from the chassis, sending it around 360 degrees, also without hitting either wall. The difference in Taub’s case is, as far as we can tell, nothing broke to cause the incident.

Keep in mind, this is a dragster that’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 230 inches in wheelbase, with slicks that are about 16 inches wide, and even though their center of gravity is relatively low, these things don’t even like to turn corners in the pits, much less get sideways and spin at over 140 mph on a very tacky racing surface, so just imagining the physics of the whole thing, you can understand how incredibly lucky Taub was in this instance to not find herself looking up at the clouds. And that’s probably why, after taking a ride in which most of us would be cleaning out the seat of our driving suit, Taub was quite upbeat and energetic about the whole thing as she talked with the arriving safety personnel. Taub of course wasn’t just along for the ride, as she did a masterful job of driving her way through this one, as even one wrong turn of the steering wheel at any point would’ve turned this epic save into an excursion with the wall.