Quote Originally Posted by Oggyflute View Post
It's a great show, and I manage to watch it most weeks. I still shudder though when I see the clip of Richard Hammond crashing that jet/drag car.
Dude,

I just got goosebumps thinking about that because the National Hot Rod Assoc. just lost a racer yesterday trying to qualify a car at a race.

THe jet cars are hellaciously fast-If you have seen one in person, you know!
When I go the the airshows they have done a demo of semi-truck, the motor end of an articulated lorry, that goes the length of the runway.

The driver that was killed yesterday had his engine blow up at the .25 mile mark and never got the chance to hit his chute, he got to the end of the run and hit the wall past the run off area. Those cars run at around 300mph/500kph.