Former NHRA Funny Car champ Cruz Pedregon was a happy man coming into Friday’s qualifying for this weekend’s Dodge NHRA Mile-High Nationals in Morrison, Colorado (a suburb of Denver).
The reason Pedregon was feeling good was he had a brand new Toyota Camry body atop his Funny Car chassis. It was state of the art, it looked fast and it was prepared to run fast.
A heartbreaking first run for the Snap-on Tools team. We have a long night ahead of us and will be back at it tomorrow. https://t.co/hFYd5SC0h4
— Cruz Pedregon (@CruzPedregon) July 21, 2018
And everything really looked good as soon as Pedregon hit the gas in his qualifying run vs. Tim Wilkerson.
Well, for a few seconds, that is.
As the two drivers hurtled down the 1,000-foot drag strip, Pedregon’s brand new body was destroyed in a massive explosion.
Fortunately, Pedregon was uninjured.
Check out the big ka-boom: