Milan Dragway offers great drag racing for the short five-month season that’s available in Michigan, but close calls can happen anywhere, as evidenced by the footage from this video taken on October 13th. Since the advent of GoPro-style in-car cameras, we’ve been 

The video was shot from the interior of a 1967 F100 that’s raced regularly at the track, and in the other lane we see nothing until the 1000-foot mark, when we see a Mitsubishi EVO enter the frame on the left. From there, it’s just the blink of an eye, and the EVO is all of a sudden in both lanes and spinning wildly out of control. 

He gets into the marbles on the left side of the strip, and from there all hell breaks loose, as before the traps he’s covering both lanes and knocking the timing blocks into oblivion. 

Luckily for all parties involved, the F100 was trailing far enough behind that the EVO had both lanes of strip to regain control, which the driver somehow manages to do. 

Amazingly, the EVO driver went through the traps and turned in a low ten-second pass – for both lanes. At the thousand-foot mark, he was already going 120 MPH, which is a big number for an EVO, making this save all the more remarkable. According to the F100 driver, nobody was hurt in the filming of this video other than a few trim pieces and timing blocks, along with the tires on the EVO and the driver’s ego.

Oh, and the underwear. We’re sure those needed replacement also.