Top Gear's Hammond does not know how lucky he is!

A long-time advocate of track racing as a means to divert potential drag racers from speeding on city streets, Czyzewski says he's never been a fan of jet-propelled cars.

"I can't stand them," he said, noting the OSCA does not sanction racing with such powerful and dangerous vehicles. His organization deals with fast cars of the non-jet-propelled variety, such as the Mustang, which he used to race. "When you get strapped into a car like that you've got to know something like that can happen," he said.

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Carboy - 10/3/2006 3:55:22 PM

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No tats a picture few years before accident

Hyundai - 10/3/2006 6:53:14 PM

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I think it is ridiculous and even a tad disrespectful for Czyzewski to say that Hammond does not realize he could have died during this crash. Hammond knows much better than Czyzewski because it happened to Hammond. Hell, Czyzewski drove a Mustang, what does he know...

chewy - 10/3/2006 11:53:48 PM

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The article isn't about Hammond, but a young female racer from Canada that died in a jet powered dragster. Jet powered ones seem to be more dangerous than the normal Top Fuel ones (possibly because the jet ones are hard to shut off, or possibly because the jet ones are expensive to run so only proffesionals use them)