by Bobby Bennett Sun, 2010-06-13 17:00
Alexis DeJoria didn’t have to be reminded that Friday’s Top Alcohol Funny Car fatal crash could have been her a year earlier.
DeJoria was one of two drivers who tested Old Bridge Township Raceway Park’s new shutdown containment system during last season’s NHRA SuperNationals in Englishtown, NJ. Her Funny Car lost both parachutes and went into the pea gravel, through two catch nets and into the first four rows of sand-filled barrels.
She lived to tell about the experience.