Steve Evans is the greatest voice of the 1320 of all time.....

Poor Scott. You could tell he was shook up and disappointed, but mostly just devastated that his crewman got injured. Solid guy, solid team.

It was nice seeing Steve Evans again, sad how he died right after they let him go, all the racing he covered, he was on TV for years.

I was at the races when that valve cover blew off. It was loud as hell. And that crew member was pissed. I think he said every curse work in the book haha. Glad he was ok.

Watching this says to me that the crews need to outfitted like an F1 crew with fire suits and helmets.

So this is how it feels to chew 5 gum

I asked the crew are you tired? No just a little run down

Damn that's a lot of power, that head gasket he was holding up looked way more serious material wise than what we put in our passenger cars and it was blown outwards like it wasn't nothing...

I wouldn't approach one of those nitro engines unless I was wearing a full Kevlar bomb squad suit! There absolutely lethal !😬 Scary stuff....

the fact no one died from these incidents is incredible.

Its so weird seeing the old econoline ambulances haha first truck was a 79 flareside with an 81 nose and a 351M loved it lol

6:27 the way his neck bent saved him from getting his head crushed by that back wheel.

When you’re making around 10,000 horsepower (think about that number) - stuff happens.

I played with Nitro for years, never got hurt.. it was my rock band in the 80s. 🙃

Dale Armstrong, you can't have a more legendary name than that...

There is zero chance I'd stand in front of one of those monsters when it's running. That's like pointing a loaded gun to your own head.

What was that crewmans 60 foot time?

🤣🤣 it ripped his pants off!!

Ever notice that back in the 80s you never saw Kenny Bernstien and Dio at the same time

Hella respect to ALL men and women that drive and are part of the crew!

I work at Sonoma raceway (Sears Point) and many moments have happened, respect HAS to happen around motors.

2:37 look at those ET's😱😱😱😱 damn thats fast

you wouldn,t believe how nasty this stuff can be compressed. Ive seen some un real damaged rods and pistons from nitro.

This is before they went from 1320 feet down to 1000 feet. 4.5 second runs seems like an eternity compared to today’s top fuel runs.

5:28 that bang made everyone back up.

I was at the Kenny Bernstein mishap in Brainerd, Mn. That was wild.

I remember watching with my pops, good times.

I watched the EXACT SAME THING happen with an Alcohol Funny car back in 89' at a strip about 2 /1/2 miles from our neighborhood body up some type of problem getting the car in gear when the car lunged forward knocking a crew member to the ground everyone was fine no injuries just a CRAZY SCARE! there's something about OVER 5K HP it GETS PRETTY HAIRY!!!

blew that guys pants off at 6:20. crazy

I was in the staging lanes when Weis blew up I’ve also been around an A/F car blowing up. You don’t want to mess with nitro

We used to crank the engine over with the Magneto's off which also shuts down all the injectors four and five times and then while it was still spinningflip the switch for the mags and fire it up to clear the cylinders

I was at maple grove when Jim-o. Lifted the head on kalittas dragster.It did sound like a bomb going off

If anyone plays crash bandicoot, they would know how dangerous nitro is.

Thank God they have ear protection near high explosive tentative bombs

2:25 sounds like this guy got chewed out by the team owner lol

Ya this time before every crew not wearing safety tool

That's a lot of damage!

Hey baby, check out the scar I got from a nitro engine explosion... hell yea I'm cool

Drag racing people are genuinely nice, caring people.

I like Jim Oberhaufer’s sense of humor.

Had one of them Magnetos shock the piss out of me. I was on the ground so fast. I don't remember it! Ground them beast.. As you will never forget being hit by Lightning...

I remember Weis' boomer being a big one but I'd fogotten just how big it was.

Back in the day when timing was always an issues....

The worst pit incident I've ever seen happened at Houston Raceway, in 1991, or 92, during the Slick 50 Nationals. A Top Fuel Funny car was staged, with the body up and suddenly accelerated, right when a track security guard was walking across the lane, about 20' in front of the car. She went right into the blower belt and got whipped around like a rag doll. You ever seen something that was so abrupt and shocking that it made your stomach hurt, almost to the point of nausea? It was like that, and I had already seen a couple of dead bodies up close and had witnessed some nasty industrial accidents. Anyway, after she was life flighted out, the track announced that she was ok and talking. Kinda think that was BS, since once they got the car stopped, she was completely limp and never moved again.

My gawd I've never seen a head gasket like that!

Fuck that!!!! Mess with nitro....live fast

Back in the pits, the Weiss guys were saying it was because of the new intake they were using. I think they probably just forgot to back the engine down before cranking it.

Perfect title !!

I worked on the UPS car that was fixing to run along side him. That thing was the worst I ever saw starting one of these things up, never had one blow up on me. I always like to run the car on gas after shutting the fuel pump off during the warmup. That way there isn't any nitro in the cylinders after it shuts off.

Dave thanks..

The scariest thing isnt being run over, its getting sucked by the engine

After a warm up you will see teams lower the rear of the car with to down nozzle fuel lines disconnected at the back of the cylinder head to remove the fuel. Lol they called it hydraulic back then witch is incorrect . Its just the nitro lighting at a inopportune time

Discord nitro, don't become toxic.

That's why you flip the ground switch on the Magneto's

That wheel saved his ass

ok, maybe i’m missing something, but that lifting the body can cause those cars to open throttle seems a lot like star trek control consoles having explosive mains power conduits running through them... flawed design.

Why must extreme situation have to happen when Marty Reid is commentating?

For future reference; don’t try to lift the body of a Funnycar when the engine is running and the driver has his foot on the clutch.

Cody's lucky he had awareness to bend his back to keep his head from going under Tony's car. he would have lost his head for not being on point.

Now they start them on gasoline and switch to nitro right after

Big chuckling after Pedregons incident, he's probably like that ain't nothing compared to what he's seen and done

The show must go on.

That’s some scary shit! 😬😬😬

I would think that the driver position in top fuel drags would be better up front near the front wheels. Safer from the engine and better weight distribution imho.

The BATMOBILE!!!

I run Nitro in my radio control car too .

Pure friggin EVIL! When your in the grand stands it still feels to close!!!! These engines are barely controllable land minds. There down right scary as hell!!!

After witnessing Dicky's almost tragic incident, my commando free ballin days are over. Could you imagine?

I wonder at peak how much of a blast goes off in each cylinder, say in sticks of tnt

Don't the start them on alchohol then switch them to nitro after they are running

10k RPM at idle. OK, probably an exaggeration

Nitro is unstable as hell, and even more so in hot weather, so it doesn't take much to set it off. It seems it would be to their advantage if there was some way to vent the cylinders between run times to prevent a volatile fuel buildup. Things can get out-of-hand quickly when you work at the speed of these guys between runs, no matter how careful they are.

Somebody in the know please humor my question because I honestly don't know. When they are rolling these engines over with a long wrench (understand why they do it) to clear the engine why don't they just pull a plug from each cylinder and then roll it? Or perhaps blast compressed air down in the cylinder after a plug is pulled?

It’s the best

Wish they still ran the full 1/4 mile

I was there and a fan got hit by a piece of metal. he was seated near the top of the top eliminator club. Wiess gave the guy a piston and connecting rod.

6:15 is literally the funniest thing ive seen in years 😂😂😂

Phil swift: WOW THATS A LOT OF DAMAGE

Hydro-lock

Exactly good reason why they could electronically control the fuel and this would never happen again and actually the cars would be faster!

6:27 his pants just ripped apart oly shit

Back when 7000hp and 4s were fast

Top fuel drag racing is so bad ass

That's whut happens when you f*** with nitro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at 2:50 WOW 24 Dragsters trying to Qualify for the US Nationals

Nitro Mafia!!!

Why so many fast n furious fans on here commenting, y’all know damn well there’s four too many cylinders here for your kind! And wayyy more horsepower than you could comprehend

KB HEMI’s on Nitro pretty scary !!!

Wow now what do we have like six teams.

I ate a burrito once and had the same thing happen to me

90s drag racing

brb gonna play with NOS instead

3:22 both cars started on yellow lights is that a jump???

If you aint first, your last...

Where's the safety officials?too many people on the race track..especially on the starting line.

Bring Mike Dunn back ?

2:40 we missed the shot but can still hear it

Diamond P was the shit back then

Simpson Bandit

Nitro was banned by NHRA from 1957 to 1963...