If you attended this weekend’s NHRA New England Nationals at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire, you can be forgiven if you thought it was 4th of July weekend.
There were plenty of fireworks, not just celebrating the winner’s of the race, but also two huge explosions that occurred during the course of the three-day event.
On Friday, Funny Car driver Courtney Force -- daughter of 16-time NHRA Funny Car champion John Force and sister of Brittany Force (won Top Fuel Sunday) -- walked away uninjured from a massive explosion -- and still managed to qualify No. 1 on the same run!
In Sunday’s first round of eliminations, Top Fuel driver Terry McMillan had an equally tremendous motor explosion -- some NHRA observers called it arguably the worst they’ve seen in the last two decades.
Like Courtney Force, McMillan was uninjured. But boy, what an explosion it was.
Check it out:
And for those of you that missed Courtney Force’s explosion on Friday, here it is again (thankfully, Force also walked away uninjured):