Video: Outlaw 10.5 Racer Michael Martin’s Cecil County Mishap

Gloucester, Virginia based racer Michael Martin is well regarded as one of the toughest – and quickest – competitors in all of Outlaw 10.5, but over the weekend, Martin had an outing he’d just as soon forget ever happened. Unfortunately, banged up race cars serve as a long-standing reminder of just how quick things can and do go wrong.

During Cecil County Dragway’s Outlaw Street Car Shootout on Saturday, Martin’s record-setting ’68 Camaro – packing big cubic inches and nitrous for power – got away from him and took a hard slap to the opposing guardrail on the passenger side of the car.

Martin’s mount went immediately right at the hit toward the gaurdrail, and despite doing all that he could to lift off the throttle and reign it in, the new surface at Cecil County proved too dicey and the momentum carried the car across the track, where it ended up facing back toward the starting line. Martin was uninjured in the incident and we certainly hope the damage was largely cosmetic.

Martin had had great success in his familiar Camaro, recording the quickest nitrous Outlaw 10.5 passes in competition at 4.23 seconds in the eighth mile and 6.52 seconds out the back, with a personal best of 4.143 seconds at 175 miles per hour in testing.

Like the rest of the heads-up doorslammer community, we wish Michael and his team a quick return to action with a race car that’s good as new.