Another new way to lose a round!
 

Saturday afternoon at Martin this past weekend I was Driving Phil Veldheer's 69 Camaro at the IHRA race in Martin, MI. I had a small issue when the car launched.......

http://youtu.be/Nox7YyroNV8

I have never had a car with a removable steering wheel and never will just because of something like this. I never took this steering wheel off when I was driving this car and had made three passes in the car prior to this run with no issues.

It kinda got my attention and caught me off guard!!!! Kept my hands busy while driving this automatic trans car!

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did I hear a little curse there?

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Sorry... Pardon my French!

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That had to be a pucker moment!

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I would have been cursin like a drunk sailor in a ***** house. Glad you did not end up in the guard rail. There always next race

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Quick thinking!

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Looks to me like you were way calmer than most people would be. Hell, it sounds like you only briefly lifted when the car hit the chip. Nice job!

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Pretty nice job getting the steering wheel back on the spline.

Not a recommended method for checking the front end alignment.

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We had a similar experience. With a hemi street race car. The steering shaft came out of the steering box. It did not end as well. But it could have been a whole lot worse. That run ended our street racing careers.

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Now THAT is calm and collected! Very impressive!

Launch...oops, damn.....hmm,hmm,hmm gotta shift, now stick this back on......shift....nope can't catch him....crap I lost....

Could of got real ugly, congrat's on keeping it straight. (now if the other guy redlit, that would of been hilarious!)