Forgive Vinny Larosa if he considers the biggest and baddest roller coaster in the world is mere child's play. He's been on a more thrilling ride, and one not on rails.

Friday afternoon during Outlaw 632 qualifying, Larosa Plymouth Duster went skyward, groundward and aroundward in one of the more stunning displays of driving ever seen in Drag Radial competition.

"This car seems to want to take off now and again," Larosa explained. "We’ve been setting the car up for radial and keeping it, trying to keep it down, but the power that we have under the hood is Voss power, with Frankenstein Engine Dynamics, the cylinder heads. They make a boatload of power and the balancing act on these tiny tires."

The damage report included the transmission pan, a dimpled oil pan and a few other pieces. Larosa is optimistic he'll make it back to competition this weekend.

"We already got a new tranny pan and literally looking for a manual tie rod end from a 1990 Mustang and that will be our parts list, we’ll be done," Larosa explained. "But we didn’t hit anything, I didn’t knock over a cone. We’re okay."

Larosa said he didn't have time to think during the incident; he just reacted.

"When I was in the air, it felt like I was in the air for an hour," Larosa explained. "Everything seems to happen in slow motion with me when I’m in the car. I don’t know what about it, I have a great focus when I’m driving, when I’m in it. I believe it was beneficial."

Larosa admitted he did have time to think of those things most important in his life once the car came to a stop.

"I just think of my kids, I think of my wife, what would happen," Larosa said. "I literally, I go through, it’s all mechanical when I’m up there. The wheel hand over hand, got my brakes just pedaling it, not standing on the brake so I don’t lock them up and create a big slide. I didn’t want to hit the guy beside me, because I didn’t know where he was on the track. So if he was next to me, I would have put him into the wall.

"I just stay away if I had to. I was trying my best to keep the green on the car, not on the wall. But it can get away from you pretty quick. This isn’t for the faint of heart. If it was that easy, everybody’d be doing it."