Video: Parachute fails on 494km/h run

It would be one of our biggest fears in drag racing, pull the lever marked parachute and there’s a bit of slack that shouldn’t be there at all.

Gary Densham does well to run a squirly personal best of 4.050 at 494km/h in Pomona but with no çhute to slow him down his Dodge skips across the sand and into the safety net, wrecking the car but allowing Gary to see his 70th birthday. Watch how well the net manages to dissipate that energy…