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September 17, 2012 at
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Saw this posted over on Pitgate, luckily the driver walked away unharmed
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=...https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.498465740180914.123299.419105928116
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September 17, 2012 at
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That took one beating. Glad he did walk away.
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September 17, 2012 at
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Wow, that is one lucky fellow!
Never hit stationary objects!
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September 18, 2012 at
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Happened at Wayne County Speedway saturday night. Mitch Harble is the drivers name. Him and Dallas Hewitt got together on the front stretch, with Harble flipping to a stop in turn 1 lucky to walk away.
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September 18, 2012 at
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Most of the breaks happened at the welds.
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September 18, 2012 at
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Posted By: Twenty8 on September 18 2012 at 04:23:13 PM
Most of the breaks happened at the welds.
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I was just thinking the same thing.
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September 18, 2012 at
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September 18, 2012 at
06:03:22 PM by revjimk
Thank God for roll cages. Those old timers who drove with little roll bars or none at all had lots more balls than brains.
I commented at Speedy Bill's museum that those old roll bars didn't look too helpful. The tour guide told me a quote from an old time driver; "The difference between those roll bars & none at all was the difference between an open casket funeral & a closed one"
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September 18, 2012 at
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I Bet it wasn't a XxX.
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September 18, 2012 at
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For 2 days I have not said anything because I didn't want to bring it up. If the cage had XXX on it there would have been 200 post by now.
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September 18, 2012 at
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Omg! Glad he's ok. Come on guys someone has to bash Triple X for this. Maybe it was a Triple X that crashed him. If this was a X car they would had to shut this down by now. Again glad he's ok.
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September 18, 2012 at
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September 18, 2012 at
07:43:51 PM by SLINK51
I was just pointing out that XxX welds have NEVER broke like these. Damn glad the driver walked away.
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September 18, 2012 at
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Posted By: SLINK51 on September 18 2012 at 06:28:45 PM
I Bet it wasn't a XxX.
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From the racers facebook page ... "Schnee chassis".
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September 18, 2012 at
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Posted By: billsracing51 on September 18 2012 at 07:45:30 PM
From the racers facebook page ... "Schnee chassis".
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Brian Schnee builds some of the nicest cars, Lord knows Ive destroyed a couple of them now and walked away from both, chromoly tubing has a shattering charteristic due to its high level of carbon, a mild steel car in this case would just bend up and kink most likely. the welds on both my cars that were destroyed look similar, did the welds break? , hell no! 90% of the time the point of load is going to be present at the intersection of triangulation , sure it looks decieving, but I invite anybody to come look at both my destroyed Schnee's and have a look for yourself , I run Brians cars and I run a few XXX bolt on items, I havent had a failure on either premature, I will NEVER hesitate to thow my leg over the hoop in a Schnee, I dont know the particulars of this wreck but it looks to have taken multiple impacts with something very hard, most of the tubing in a race car will save you once from a near miss, the second time of impact if the bar is kinked, your on your own, I just hope we all have "cat like" 9 lives, and the lord hasnt called our # yet. that mess of a car almost makes me sick, at first I thought it had to be a non wing car, unbelievable how much that thing bent, what gives this week? , I thought KM Spencer photos were bad enuff.. glad all walked away unharmed.. very glad.
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