Looks like he "got out of the groove" in drag racing lingo. The shiny stuff is slippery even though it is traction compound (glue).

or this?

Does this make any more sense?

One time, this numbskull forgot to tighten the set screw where the steering shaft attached to the rack. This was an 8-second doorslammer that apparently launched just hard enough to knock it off. The result was somewhere between the cover story and the Funny car posted below...with a lot more profanity. I felt…

Here is a real nitro engine starting up. The methanol clears out of the lines after about 7-8 seconds.

Thanks for pointing that out. Most folks don't know the difference. It's confusing because they are both RPO ZR1, as was the C3 ZR1 that almost nobody knows about (it's even more rare). Why they stuck the hypen in the badge is anyone's guess. Kind of like the old RPO LT1 cars with LT-1 badges, RPO L88 cars with…

As a long time racer, the first thing that always jumps out at me is how long someone stays in the throttle as the car is getting out of shape. It's obvious that the throttle was stuck way before the car crossed the center line. My only comment here is that all of this drama and destruction could have been avoided…

I'm sure "Jon" probably mispelled his own name

He didn't even think about lifting. Something tells me that wasn't the first time he turned a potentially car-destroying moment into a loss of 3-4 hundredths.