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Originally Posted by Soundplus
When was the last time you saw someone (or maybe it was you) showing off with their car and it did not go as planned and they trashed their car?
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Not the most recent example, but here is the worse one I've ever seen.
A little background. Back in about 1999 or 2000, the Friday night race track I used to watch races at did something called spectator races the last Friday night of every month. (You can probably see where this is going). After all the features where finished, they would do one-on-one, 1 lap races, starting in turn 4 from a dead stop all the way around to the finish line again. They would separate whoever signed up into 4, 6, and 8 cylinder classes, and do one-on-one sudden death elimination until they where down to one. For a while, it actually got quick ridiculous, both with the number of cars (over 100 at the high point), and with the types of cars people would come in (In 1999, the year the 300M was introduced, one showed up, and it had the MSRP sticker in the window).
Anyway, every month, someone showed up with an almost new at the time Pontiac Grand Prix with a supercharged 3.8L. Every week, it would clean up (remember, this was 13 years ago when 240 hp from a V6 was something). It didn't really ever have to race. The car always won the drag race into turn 1 by a comfortable margin, and coasted to the end.
One night, I don't remember what the other car was, but another V6 showed up, lined up on the inside, actually kept even to turn 1, and had a car length lead on the back stretch. The driver of the Grand Prix dive-bombed into turn 3 trying to drive around the other car on the outside, washed up the track, and drove nose first into the wall. The car was a total loss.