Bad Luck at Gateway

We have to hear more, what happened??

Last lap of the race, 3rd place. As I turned right into the second half of the 'S', the left front tire valve stem failed and the tire went flat. At 100mph and in a right hand drift, the car just slid off the track to the left. I tried to get the car turned so it would bounce off the tire wall but it dug in (hence the major left front damage) and was launched. You can see where the carnage started. The rear pitched up and over - nose down and roof toward wall. As it cartwheeled, the front of the car was pointing up into the air (I knew it was bad when things were quiet) Up to this point, it all seemed like slow motion. About now, the right rear tire hit the ground. The car was on its downward arc from vertical. The force ripped the a-arm like it was aluminum foil and pulled my spicer u-joints apart. The car violently finished the last 180 degrees of its 360 with a hard slap into its final resting place. I immediately shut off switches and egressed to the wall. The car has since been stripped and sent to the crusher. I'm working on a new one now! By the way, I still got a 3rd place finish since I was on the lead lap and the 4th place finisher was down one lap.