RIP Scott Kalitta

[Alberta-SRT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziJdGwFQjU

Here's another one I just found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziJdGwFQjU

 

[Alberta-SRT]

Here's another one I just found

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziJdGwFQjU

Wrong one just a minute

 

[Alberta-SRT]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSn94ZoLlQ0

Here's the one I meant to post

 

[black pearl]

RIP Scott

 

[Ronin]

That was horrific to watch. Rest in peace.

 

[FSTJACK]

A very sad day....................

 

[SrtBrad]

R.I.P. Scott. Prayers sent to Scott and his family.

 

[K-80-123]

RIP Scott

 

[04 SRT 10]

Very Sad...RIP Scott...

 

[Prof]

So sad....

Thanks for all the thrills Scott...

 

[BriteCrawler]

Definitely shocking and horrible.

Damn shame... died with his boots on, enjoying what he loved to do.

I want to echo this and mold it a bit, he died with his boots on, doing what he loved best, and it's my opinion that we should all be so lucky.

RIP Scott.

 

[mauiSRT/10]

Man that is just horrible. For some reason I thought they had a fire suppressent system in those cars?

It really shows how dangerous drag racing at that level really is. Has it even been a year since Eric Medlen died?

God bless those families.

patrick

 

[Silverback]

The fire surpressant system is not designed to handle that large of an explosion.

 

[mauiSRT/10]

The fire surpressant system is not designed to handle that large of an explosion.

I didnt know that.

 

[OCBob]

I don't know that you could design anything to handle that large of an explosion, certainly not anything that would be small enough to go in a car.

I haven't really heard any details on the accident yet. It sure wouldn't surprise me to hear that he was badly injured and/or unconscious after the initial explosion. That would explain why the car never slowed. I hope for his sake that was the case.

 

[Alberta-SRT]

Half the body blew off the car at the finish line, even if there was a fire suppression system big enough with the body gone it wouldn't have worked.
Here is a picture from where we were sitting after they piled up the pieces of the body. I was too in shock to take any pictures when they were spread out and too far away from the sand trap to get a good picture. No one was allowed down there.

 

[MYTRAM]

The fire surpressant system also has to be pulled manually and may not of been possible in this instance.