Odell crash video

[Waco84GN]

Well as unfortunate as it is, I just so happened to be pointing my video camera right at his car when he had his wreck. This is my first Youtube video so it may not be 100%, but it will get the point across that he is a very lucky man. God was with him today.

You took a hard lick man, and let me tell you I felt sick as I was recording it, but I knew I had just got the whole thing on tape and figured I would try my best to get good footage.


Take the rest of the week off, and get better.

Your turbo buick brother,

Jerry Berger Jr.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aem2Rk59sZo[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Raymond Bunch]

Man, that looked to be pretty bad. Sure hope he is ok....

 

[John Wilde]

God, thanks for letting us keep OC for a little while longer.
That video made me sick to my stomach...

 

[Buicksx2]

Man o man........thankfully he is OK.

 

[Cheeseburger]

That really sucks, car sounded really good and you could hear that it was dialed in good.:frown:

 

[whitehot1]

Wow that was a hard hit into the wall and real lucky to walk away from that.

I hope they gave him something at the hospital after being looked at for the after effect pains that he is sure to have tomorrow and probably a few days to come.

Glad he is ok and hopefully going to take it easy a few days.


John

 

[Nojug]

Definetly something on that track you can see the messed up groove the car was trying to follow. Glad to hear driver is oK

 

[Dwayne]

I hoped you, Waco84, checked with OC before you posted this vid to youtube.

 

[ttypewhite]

God, thanks for letting us keep OC for a little while longer.
That video made me sick to my stomach...

x2, You could see the emotion on Cal Hartline when something happens to a close friend. Cal lines him up in the burnout box and is the first to run to his aid. That's a true friend!!!

 

[cruzn57]

no words.........

can describe how we all feel,
just glad he's ok, I'm sure he is sore and heart broken,

I wish there was something we could do to help.

again, just glad he's OK!

 

[lazaris]

Definetly something on that track you can see the messed up groove the car was trying to follow. Glad to hear driver is oK

I think he just got out of the groove early, pushed to the right and then broke traction. Thank God hes ok.

 

[notacarlo]

Just wow man.

 

[forcedfedv6]

I think he just got out of the groove early, pushed to the right and then broke traction. Thank God hes ok.

Indeed you are correct my friend, but on the other hand that car needed to have that suspention dialed in, even on the the burnout you can see the car push to the left which tell me that the suspention is not correctly adjusted, pushing either left or right during a burnout tells you that 1-suspention needs adjustment or 2-your posi is going out because one tire is grabbing more than the other, plus getting out of the groove didnt help things at all and trying to correct to quick is what made the car hit the wall and flip, if he has the HR Sway Bar on that car, he needed more preload on the passanger right tire in order to prevent this from happening, a guy in area 2 yrs back had the same problem and after i went to his pit and made the proper adjustments to the bar the car went straight as an arrow.. Hope he is ok..

 

[getchasum]

Indeed you are correct my friend, but on the other hand that car needed to have that suspention dialed in, even on the the burnout you can see the car push to the left which tell me that the suspention is not correctly adjusted, pushing either left or right during a burnout tells you that 1-suspention needs adjustment or 2-your posi is going out because one tire is grabbing more than the other, plus getting out of the groove didnt help things at all and trying to correct to quick is what made the car hit the wall and flip, if he has the HR Sway Bar on that car, he needed more preload on the passanger right tire in order to prevent this from happening, a guy in area 2 yrs back had the same problem and after i went to his pit and made the proper adjustments to the bar the car went straight as an arrow.. Hope he is ok..

The several cars that went down the track prior had trouble as well keeping them straight. (this happened after a rain delay) I would have thought some of the slower cars would have made passes first to help put some rubber down. The track had to be cool after it was rained on for as long as it was.

I know OC has to be sick looking at the car but the MAIN thing is, he's ok and still here to build again. We can replace cars but we can not replace friends and family. I was in total shock watching it unfold, glad your are ok OC and still with us to fight another fight.

 

[odell4o8]

crash

Thanks to everone for the support, i got home around 1 pm today,
true im a little sore, but my bank accound did and will have more suffering, that is if i dont give up and part out the old car,
hartline give me a lot of support plus tuning the fast and dialing in the ams 1000 controller, i told cal after the crash he did it , by adding more power
of course he knowed i was kidding him thanks,oc,

 

[odell4o8]

Indeed you are correct my friend, but on the other hand that car needed to have that suspention dialed in, even on the the burnout you can see the car push to the left which tell me that the suspention is not correctly adjusted, pushing either left or right during a burnout tells you that 1-suspention needs adjustment or 2-your posi is going out because one tire is grabbing more than the other, plus getting out of the groove didnt help things at all and trying to correct to quick is what made the car hit the wall and flip, if he has the HR Sway Bar on that car, he needed more preload on the passanger right tire in order to prevent this from happening, a guy in area 2 yrs back had the same problem and after i went to his pit and made the proper adjustments to the bar the car went straight as an arrow.. Hope he is ok..

I had the car scaled with me sitting in the drivers seat, so the H&R sway bar should have been adjusted right, the burn out, they had less water one side so that will make one tire bite more than the other, most of the time the car will go straight when i make a burn out, i only left the line with 8 lbs boost, thanks oc,

 

[powerwagon05]

good to hear hes o.k

 

[terik.m]

Damn bro...at least youre okay. On a different note, this is why we keep it on the track. You never know what could go wrong.

 

[charlief1]

Glad to here you're OK Odell. That was a nasty wreck. I've seen some nasty dirt track ones about as bad and they didn't walk away. Jerry, next time post a little more so we can see the driver get out ok. That was my biggest concern.

 

[Eticket]

Odell, I'm so glad you made it out ok. You've definitely always set the best example for us in the Buick community. I hope you get the (a) car together soon and get back out the the track without too much $ lost.

I still have one of those aluminum rods you gave me at the Nats in 2003 - a great keepsake.

John Nguyen