When Race Cars Fly

[Topcat]

Hairball, Scetch, Insane, Unreal.

Pretty crazy.

Racing has evolved since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceYx7t80rU

[Cuda Cody]

Some scary stuff!!!   

[anlauto]

 

[Brads70]

Reminded me of this one. I dig the music too!
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[HP2]

In profile, a car roughly resembles a wing. It only takes a 150 mph for an aircraft to get air born, so why not a race car?

[chal340]

and the security made huge progress.

[JS29]

IT'S hard to be-leave some people watch nascar just to see the crashes!!!     

[HP_Cuda]

Holy smokes, those couple of close calls where the airborne car flies over the others is insane!

[HP2]

They didn't show any vintage funny cars flying. This was a pretty big problem in the early 70s when bodies were pretty close to stock and aerodynamics was science for airplanes. These guys would fly 20-40 up in the air until there was enough force to tear the body off and the whole thing came crashing down.