Scary Moments in Your Racing Career?

Angela Macy · 12-14-2008, 02:21 PM

Back a long time ago (ha ha) when I was 17/18 years old a friend of mine, Neal Church, who raced at Farmington at the time, verbally told me how to make a pass in his car. He asked if I wanted to try it, and I jumped right in. Back then I was a little more fearless than I am now.

The car was like a 71-73 Chevy Camaro and ran 6.60's in the 1/8th.

I did a really pathetic burnout, then staged and launched - cut a .550 light which is a .050 light now, which wasn't too bad for a first timer (I had made passes in my Blazer though). As soon as I launched everything went grey. Which kind of freaked me out as the car was Silver and my first thought was I had flipped the car over

I quickly realized the full faced helmet had moved up when I launched (as it was a little too big for me) and the mouth guard was blocking my view. I reached up, pulled the helmet down and then noticed that I didn't have my foot completely to the floor, still had an inch or so to go, so I floored it and went like 6.80 or 6.90 at 101 mph. But yeah, I never took my foot off the throttle, despite being blinded for a few seconds. It's really pretty stupid looking back on it - I didn't even think about the helmet being a little loose. I hadn't even drove anything with that kind of torque/horsepower to realize what force I'd be hit with when I floored it.

Scott tries to constantly get me to make a pass in the Volare or Coronet, but I won't do it. I'm scared now in my old age

I have raced our 68 Dart before though, althought not very well.

12-14-2008, 02:21 PM	#29
Angela Macy Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Randleman, NC Posts: 301 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Scary Moments in Your Racing Career? Back a long time ago (ha ha) when I was 17/18 years old a friend of mine, Neal Church, who raced at Farmington at the time, verbally told me how to make a pass in his car. He asked if I wanted to try it, and I jumped right in. Back then I was a little more fearless than I am now. The car was like a 71-73 Chevy Camaro and ran 6.60's in the 1/8th. I did a really pathetic burnout, then staged and launched - cut a .550 light which is a .050 light now, which wasn't too bad for a first timer (I had made passes in my Blazer though). As soon as I launched everything went grey. Which kind of freaked me out as the car was Silver and my first thought was I had flipped the car over I quickly realized the full faced helmet had moved up when I launched (as it was a little too big for me) and the mouth guard was blocking my view. I reached up, pulled the helmet down and then noticed that I didn't have my foot completely to the floor, still had an inch or so to go, so I floored it and went like 6.80 or 6.90 at 101 mph. But yeah, I never took my foot off the throttle, despite being blinded for a few seconds. It's really pretty stupid looking back on it - I didn't even think about the helmet being a little loose. I hadn't even drove anything with that kind of torque/horsepower to realize what force I'd be hit with when I floored it. Scott tries to constantly get me to make a pass in the Volare or Coronet, but I won't do it. I'm scared now in my old age I have raced our 68 Dart before though, althought not very well.