Shawn @ VA Speed

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with the passing of Scott Kalitta at the NHRA event at Englishtown.RIP Scott

JCattSS

Ho **** thats the first I have heard of this. We are huge NHRA fans Scott always seemed like a great guy. Dam I have on a medlen shirt right now.

RIP Scott

SSPerformance

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Sad day. RIP. Very bad looking by the video

kenSS

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R.I.P Scott. you will be missed by all.

bballr4567

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Wow! I seriously cant believe it.

RIP Scott.

Dragkid1917

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

Im pretty upset, if i go tomorrow its gunna be pretty somber...

CamaroRacing12

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terrible... RIP this is just a reminder that our sport is still very dangerous

WJ SOM SS

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My son called me via cell a few hours back and said it was a awful thing to see. He said they immediately shut the whole place down. Said he went into the sand trap at a very high speed, and maybe even into the woods. Motor blew on top end, they think maybe he was knocked unconscious, because the car never seemed to slow down at all....That class is by far the most dangerous of them all. Very sad news. WJ

The Alchemist

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WOW. Unbeleivable accident.

Really sad and sobering news. That was one hell of an accident, it looked like the car was thrown into the air at the sand traps.

JS

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I heard earlier today about it..Very sad,His car did fly and hit a tree past the sand...He was knocked out and from what I heard it was a gruesome site...

RIP CONNIE...

NJNETSFAN

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I must of watched the video about 10 times now in complete awe. It looks like the car completely fell apart after hitting the sand trap. I plan on going tomorrow, but I actually kinda hope it rains now just so I don't have to see all of the sad racers.

Tom01ss

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If I remember correctly, you have the sand,then the net,then a concrete barrier to stop you from going onto the road at the end of the track.But none the less, a very sad day.R.I.P.

Ping King

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i know someone who does crash rescue for the track, but i think its best that we not ask for details.

JL ws-6

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Very sad day for the drag racing world

tektrans

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Terrible.

DarkJuggalo

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thats nuts
rip

95fbird

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I was there on fri and saw him..cant belive it.....its very sad...im not sure what went in the air after the sand....but either way the wall would not of been much better. We may need to think of longer shut downs or perhaps slow these things down abit, or race 1200 feet. Something.....I love to go fast and watch ppl go fast...but 4 deaths in 5 years is just too much.

tektrans

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Tracks need to be longer they were saying. These tracks were built when the cars were only going 200mph.

JL ws-6

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I watched the interview with Jim Head last night. Jim is a very very smart guy, his comments about going to 1/8th mile racing, as much as I don't really like only running 1/2 the track I think is becoming more and more pratical.

Everything Jim said is true, the back 1/2 of the 1/4 is where all the damage occurs/speeds get scary, pretty much applies to all drag racing.

I'm not going to start advocating 1/8th mile only racing, but if all the organizations went to it to save lives, that's fine by me.

KONG

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My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kalitta family.