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Originally Posted by Hog

4000lbs of car is a lot of weight to bring to a stop. It's silly to allow a passenger in this type of a race. I could always tell the performance difference whenever I had a passenger in my vehicles at the drags. Depending on their weight, theres 2 tenths worth of "meat in the seat".
No reason to put more peoples lives at risk, both the driver/co-pilots and the emergency rescuers.
This illustrates the dangers of auto racing, not even the dangers of impact so much, but the danger of being incapacitated and having the car catch on fire. These guys were in jeans and t-shirts.
I cringe at some of the fuel systems I have seen that take some of the stock OEM safety systems out of the loop. You do NOT want the fuel pump to empty the fuel tank through a broken fuel line.
But I guess that's why a solid teching of the participating cars is for at these events.

What exactly happened here? Car did a left turn in the braking zone. Anyone know the cause?

I believe front brake locked up.