http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbour ... hp?id=3718

I have just watched the Melbourne news item about the dragster accident in Sydney. I think it is the most biased and disgusting coverage of any motorsport, I have ever seen. If you saw it and believe the same, then click the link, and push the contact us button, and write to them expressing your disgust.

Bump

Got a link for the dragster accident?

No. but it was minor.

Any video of the incident, or a look at the footage
Brett

So let me guess. there was a crash at the track today and the dumb a*** journo's have tried to mention the words street racing in the article or something to that effect.

saw it on the news tonight. Well, the ch9 one anyways. Was a bit of dribble. Showed the incident, and then the reporter tried to push the point of minority calls that the sport is unsafe and so on so on. Then they replayed the footage from the states with the aussie chap that crashed into the crowd to try and bring home "their" view of the unsafe nature of the sport. Typical ch9 dribble

Brett, I've scoured all of ninemsn, and found nothing.It was Darren Morgan losing a wheel, running across the track in front of Dobbo, hitting the wall and disintegrating. Darren was unharmed.

Dangerous? No one has died in a drag racing incident in this country in what, 20 years at least? It is the safest form of motorsport in this country bar none.

Ok re wording that. The last person to die as a result of a drag racing incident was Jon Boskovic around 2 or 3 years ago. But the accident occured way back when calder was still running group one meets. The long term injuries brought him undone.

Why don't this sons of b**ch journo's use the same line against V8 supercabs. At least 2 drivers promised to never return to the saddle cause they say that sport is too dangerous.

Oh and if drag racing is so dangerous then why do more people lose their lives to go karting? Get that up ya, fuggen journo's.

Darren Morgans Top Fuel crash Boxing Day Aust VS USA Challenge
dial this in to you tube and look at how innocuous it was!

my Youtube dialer is currently broken. please link.

preferably through a proxy as i am at work.

I got it again, no probs-http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=K66qDuE4vlw

Cheers, looks very harmless to me. But i didnrt see the news report, as i DONT HAVE A TV, so am not influenced by the media.
Cheers for the update
Brett

Here's another on youtube of the same crash, how lucky was the trackside official.........the rogue wheel bounced straight over his head bet he needed a change in undies after that close shave
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=OEjsy7WoIZ0

Hey cool that first youtube link is my video i put on youtube early yesterday morning ,cheers hope you liked the video! The crash looked worse than what it was he was very well protected,hope he gets back on the track again soon,he told the crowd he had 3 more cars back in the workshop so that shouldn't be a problem...Vito.

Thanks for the video Vito, it was terrific. If you had seen ch9's coverage of it you would have spewed!

Smiley235, the Heathcote crash, was at a private test day,by a Japanese guy, trying a jet dragster for the first time!