there is a lesson in physics here and i bet someone is smart enough to draw a parallel between cars and boats and how to prevent blow overs. i am not that guy. https://www.facebook.com/NHRA/videos...c_ref=NEWSFEED

Thew wheelie bars did the job correctly for Cruz, something to consider, where is an enigineer and a application guy to figure it out, ....

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yes, wheelie bar and "the driver did not over-react" as the announcer said

also I tot I saw these flaps opening and closing very quickly...proly air brakes and to push the nose back down?...good for him!



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Throttle control and not freaking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK3jWvNIqK4 Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCBeOqK7ldA

1) Cars are designed with downforce to keep them on the track.
2) Catamarans are designed with lift, completely opposite.
3) Cars are not immune to blow overs, it's been happening for years; albeit rare.
4) With a car, usually you can back out of a wheelie and it comes down (albeit, sometimes the coming down is worse than staying up)...
...with a catamaran, often, when you back out of the thottle past a certain angle, you are actually perpetuating the blowover.

This has no relevance to cat blow-overs, but since this thread is up with drag cars, I wonder how many guys on this site watch drag racing, Street Outlaws on Discovery, Nascar, URC Sprinters, World of Outlaws, NE Modifieds, NASCAR, Lucas Offroad Racing Series, Drag Boats, ect.. I watch all that, and the only racing and cannot get enough of it. If you could race wheel chairs, skateboards, shopping carts, I would watch

I love speed in all forms, and who is the fastest, why are they the fastest (technology, driving skill); I do not like boats (cat and or Hydro's) blowing over at high speeds and the loss of life, find the most feasible engineered solution that could be implemented, if possible, to stop or best reduce the possibility of a blowover.....


PS I like pictures in threads, I guess you can see who I like (Kinser, Force, Chief and Kye, Renezeder, Dale Sr.)

Show me a car designed for lift, and I'll show you an airplane.

i would like to hear if some sort of relief flap could be made to work. something that in case of emergency via sensor or manual deployment, it opens a hatch that relieves enough air pressure to save some boats from going over. nothing works every time, but we try. we buy cars with seat belts, crumple zones and ABS. they don't save everyone but they are the best we have in automotive safety. the concept of the hatch to relieve air pressure works in cars be it nhra or nascar. i wish there was some kind of simple safety device someone could come up with. mostly for selfish reasons i don't want boats to slow down.

this driver/car also have one of my favorite videos on drag racing on youtube titled "never give up" i believe. you have probably seen it.

Combo...wheelie bars gave the driver enough time to pedal it.