Summary
Sitting on the empty drag strip at Moroso Motorsports Park in Jupiter, Fla., "Dyno" Dave Heitzman thought about the Jet Funny Car that racer Christopher Gould was driving when he was killed Sunday along this track.
Gould's Funny Car looked like a car but had a jet engine and ran on jet fuel. Heitzman's Top Alcohol dragster, a 36-foot elongated triangle sitting low to the ground, runs on methananol with a car engine. Both go from zero to 300 mph in seconds, both finish their races before most people take a deep breath, and both defy gravity so dramatically that when the race is over, they need a parachute to stop. Gould's chute didn't open, investigators said.See the full content of this document
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'Tragic' Crash for Bowdoin Driver
Gould, 52, of Bowdoin, Maine, was killed while piloting his Funny Car named FirePower. He had just completed a quarter-mile run, reaching 268 miles per hour. According to published reports, after cros...
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