If you’re a fan of motor racing then you’ll know that drag racers are only good on straight-line racetracks. However, it looks like someone forgot to tell this guy.
The Leadfoot Festival is one of the more interesting events on the motor racing calendar, mainly because it’s held in New Zealand on some bloke’s private ranch. So there’s major hoonage to be had.
The festival is inspired by the famous Goodwood Festival of Speed and every year the racing champion Rod Millen, who owns the ranch, invites a selection of high horsepower cars and extremely talented drivers to race a mile long track that leads straight up to the front door of his home. Now that’s pretty cool.
The car we see taking a flip into the shrubbery is the vintage fuel altered dragster known as the “Rat Trap”. According to Jalopnik.com, it was originally built in 1968 at the height of fuel altered drag car popularity, so you can bet it’s worth a few pennies.
We don’t know loads about dragsters or funny cars, but the one thing we do know is that it’s difficult to keep a dragster going in a straight line while on a straight track, so why someone decided to take it onto a bendy road course is beyond us.
Thankfully, no one was injured, but the car will certainly need some R&R after a tumble like that.
