Looks of it he was uncontious or somthing because the car stayed pretty well on a straight path, normaly the cars will hope and skid cause the driver gets on the rear brakes to hard, but his car had no apparent signs slowing. The initial explosion prolly knocked the chutes loose but they tangled and burned. He hit that retaning wall at a really high speed. I really hope NHRA dose somthing about all of this, like Tim Wilkerson said, "tired of burieng my friends". Belive me, I know how helpless that feels to see an out of control car un-able to stop. We lost both parachutes on our pro-mod at nearly 200mph once, and it ended up flying off the end of the track sideways and hurt my dads back and tore up the car. Few more yards and would have gone over a dike into a drainage ditch full of water with my dad straped in it and both doors jammed shut! I would like too see NHRA mandate a much larger shut down area with multipule catch nets and some type of crushable barriers at the end.
Thoughts and prayers to the Kalitta's
