Warm like a Sauna?!?!
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Warm like a Sauna?!?!
This is an excerpt from NHRA.com regarding the expolsion that Ashley Force had in Joliet a couple weeks ago. The slow-mo video is pretty crazy. This chick has bigger ***** than most guys I know.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rF6JD0k3Kk
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by www.nhra.com »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">6/9/2007
Ashley Force was stirred but not shaken Saturday after riding out an eye-opening engine explosion and fire at the conclusion of a qualifying run at the 10th annual Torco Racing Fuels Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway.
Force, the 24-year-old daughter of drag racing icon John Force, was making one of the better runs during Saturday's early afternoon session when a supercharger explosion and fire slowed her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car from its 4.783 Friday pace to 4.999, 267.53.
Despite the unexpected conclusion, Force's time was the fifth-quickest in the session, and she remained ninth in the provisional starting lineup.
"I remember thinking we were getting down the track pretty well,” said the Funny Car rookie, “[especially] since everyone else was having trouble. We were getting to the end, and then ‘boom!' I screamed because it scared me. I wasn't expecting it.
"There was some fire in the cockpit and I could feel the heat, but I also knew my helmet was sealing me off since I wasn't getting any hotter. My first instinct was to go for my radio, but then I got on the fire bottles. It was slowing down after that. It stayed in the middle the whole time. There was a moment when I couldn't see, but when I could see again, I was still right in the groove.
"In Phoenix [where she first experienced an engine fire during preseason testing], there was a lot more smoke," she said. "Today, there wasn't as much smoke but a lot more fire. ‘Guido' [crew chief Dean Antonelli] said it boomed and lifted the body and that let in more fire. I'll take the fire over the smoke, because with smoke it gets dark and you can't see as well. The fire was warm like, well, a sauna."
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Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rF6JD0k3Kk
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by www.nhra.com »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">6/9/2007
Ashley Force was stirred but not shaken Saturday after riding out an eye-opening engine explosion and fire at the conclusion of a qualifying run at the 10th annual Torco Racing Fuels Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway.
Force, the 24-year-old daughter of drag racing icon John Force, was making one of the better runs during Saturday's early afternoon session when a supercharger explosion and fire slowed her Castrol GTX Ford Mustang Funny Car from its 4.783 Friday pace to 4.999, 267.53.
Despite the unexpected conclusion, Force's time was the fifth-quickest in the session, and she remained ninth in the provisional starting lineup.
"I remember thinking we were getting down the track pretty well,” said the Funny Car rookie, “[especially] since everyone else was having trouble. We were getting to the end, and then ‘boom!' I screamed because it scared me. I wasn't expecting it.
"There was some fire in the cockpit and I could feel the heat, but I also knew my helmet was sealing me off since I wasn't getting any hotter. My first instinct was to go for my radio, but then I got on the fire bottles. It was slowing down after that. It stayed in the middle the whole time. There was a moment when I couldn't see, but when I could see again, I was still right in the groove.
"In Phoenix [where she first experienced an engine fire during preseason testing], there was a lot more smoke," she said. "Today, there wasn't as much smoke but a lot more fire. ‘Guido' [crew chief Dean Antonelli] said it boomed and lifted the body and that let in more fire. I'll take the fire over the smoke, because with smoke it gets dark and you can't see as well. The fire was warm like, well, a sauna."
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Damn, Thats nuts.
</TD></TR></TABLE>Damn, Thats nuts.
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