Watch: drag-racer pulls the perfect wheelie
US Funny Car driver nails the perfect wheelie... at many miles per hour
Drag racing may not look especially complicated, difficult or frightening, but we can assure you it absolutely is. Take this video, starring two-time Funny Car champ Cruz Pedregon.
It all begins normally enough, with Pedregon’s rival clearly suffering from some sort of mechanical failure, leaving the Californian to romp away up the quarter mile.
Only what looks like about half way through the run, Pedregon’s car takes off, leaving only his rear wheels in contact with the tarmac. And, presumably, his view forward none existent.
Pedregon keeps his foot in and the car in a straight line, to execute probably the finest wheelie ever seen from a four-wheeled vehicle.
The commentators go wild. And quite rightly, because normally this kind of thing ends not on four wheels, but in a massive fiery accident. Nicely done, Mr Pedregon.
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