from the link.
Prayers going up for Scott and the Kalitta family.
RIP Scott.
RIP.
from the link.
Over here ST...
I saw the wreck on ESPN. Very sad. RIP Scott.
My prayers go out to him and his family.
The car exploded going down track and continued until it crashed at the end of the track in a huge fireball.....
bummer his dad was one of my favorites back in the 60’s
Very tragic.
RIP, I haven’t seen it yet, don’t know if I want to.
Oh man! Prayers for his family.
oh no.... : (
RIP Scott
OMG ... so infrequent serious injuries in Drag Racing. Scott was one of the best. I was in Indy in 96??? when Blaine Johnson went over. It was a shock then to the drag race community. In fact I thin Bernstein turned his championship over to honor the Johnson brother. Alan was his crew Chief.
I love drag racing .... but when it goes bad ...it goes bad in a very big way. Prayers up for the kalita family.
We will miss you Scott
Conrad "Connie" Kalitta (born February 24, 1938 in Michigan) is the CEO of Kalitta Air and a retired American drag racing driver, once known as "The Bounty Hunter". He grew up in Mount Clemens, Michigan, and was a 1957 graduate of Mount Clemens High School. He raced from the 1950s through the 1990s. He was the first driver to hit 200 mph in an NHRA sanctioned event. He also helped Shirley Muldowney get started (in the "Bounty Huntress" car). Kalitta won 10 NHRA national events between 1967 and 1994. He was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1992. On the 2001 National Hot Rod Association Top 50 Drivers, 1951-2000, Kalitta was ranked #21.[1] He was played by Beau Bridges in the Muldowney biography film Heart Like a Wheel. He is the father and uncle respectively, of racers Scott Kalitta and Doug Kalitta.
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Prayers for the Kalitta family.
Condolences to the Kallita family and organization.
Thanks to SouthTexas for linking me to this.
Crash video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziJdGwFQjU
It looks like his engine blew, but the car kept tracking in a straight line.
Watched the tape twice and it looks to me like the drag chute never fully deployed.
Very sad. Looks like the configuration of the track made the difference. There’s just no room for error there. Had this happened at Sonoma, for instance, he probably would have survived, as he would have went into the sand pit, instead of a wall.