inverted landing

[Master Oil Racing Team]

Back straight Alexandria, La 1976. Jeff--get out your bag of forensic tools & see what's flying through the air and spray.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

The final three.

[WharfRat]

:eek: :eek: :eek: now that HAD to hurt

great series Wayne

[Jeff Lytle]

Look at the 1st pic closely.

You can still see the prop cuts in the rooster tail which means the boat did some sort of a snap roll. Bet the driver never saw it coming or had time to react. :eek:

Who was it Wayne?? Either he was very fast considering where the competition is, or he had jumped the gun.

[Master Oil Racing Team]

Yeah, that's what it looks like because of the way I cropped it Jeff. Here is more of the frame. I think it started to go over and when it came down it was a little bit sideways and snapped over. Looks like V-350. I think I know who it is but I need to check out a roster. There's enough pro drivers here though who should remember a boat being brought back in pieces.

I talked it over with Joe Rome and he couldn't remember the driver but clearly remembers in his head that there wasn't enough room for the driver to get away. It looked very bad, but I think the driver got away lucky.

[Brandon Thirlby]

I belive that the driver is Dick Pumo (spelling may be off) , he raced with Rod Walk, a native of DePue

[Master Oil Racing Team]

That spot was just a little beyond the runway. That's the same place that Paul Christner did the inverted landing. Yeah David L6 got it right and posted the evidence. Also the Buddy Aylor sequence was there. I was looking at my contact sheets and nearly everyone has crash photos from that year. Dan Kirts and Ralph Donald both went over. I never printed any of these because having been stuck in the pits most of the accidents were too far away. To blow them up would have meant terrible grain. Now with the computer and digital capabilities they can be made a decent size with superior quality (except when trying to train and focus on an accident in progress). I've got one series of accident in the first turn, I dread to start on. It was a C Service Runabout pileup like you would see at the start of an Indy race. It will take half a day to download and post all that. Hope you can find your picures.

Wayne

[Jeff Lytle]

Hi Wayne:

I'd like to post the 1st pic on another board that Paul frequents and ask him for his version of that crash.
Credit will be given as credit is due.

Thanx

[Master Oil Racing Team]

I'd like to hear it from the man myself.