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Incident and Driveshaft Failure

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LSXcalade Goes Front Wheel Drive at Street Car Takeover Indianapolis

What happens here

The video begins with the driver detailing a roll racing event at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis where his modified Cadillac Escalade experienced a catastrophic drivetrain failure. While participating in the two-wheel drive roll racing portion, the driveshaft broke due to the immense stress, detaching from the vehicle and falling onto the track. Subsequent footage from multiple angles captures the moment of failure and the driveshaft lying on the shutdown portion of the track. The driver recounts his immediate reaction and the concern that the track crew initially missed the fallen part.

Goal: Understand the circumstances of the driveshaft failure and its immediate aftermath.

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  • Broken Driveshaft

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so to give you a little recap of what you're about to watch here this was Friday no Saturday night Indianapolis Srikant take over for the role Racing portion of the event which I was participating in and I did it in two-wheel drive because I wanted to see if it would trap faster in two-wheel versus 4-way all is gonna try both and whatever you take all the load there's lonely split between two Drive shafts and put it onto one that's a lot more stress on the components as you're about to see [Music] whenever that happened and that the RPM skyrocket I immediately thought I busted something in the transmission again okay let's up AC unit come to make all kinds of noise but yeah and then I heard their driveshaft banging around so I'm like okay that's annoying but it's not bad what I did was when I got down the the shutdown it was banging around and it eventually completely fell out it was laying on the the shutdown tracker didn't see it and the next guy well I have no clue yeah [Music] not your fault he's gonna seen it we heard of clanging and banging the whole way down kid oh I ramped it dude yeah I felt really bad about that I told the track crew that it was laying there but the dude was local it didn't do anything and then it seems in the next card Oh No sure enough big big thud I'm like yeah that's where it is but uh then the flatbed guy came up to give me a tow back and I was like no brother this ain't my first rodeo I pop over there put it for hi and throw it back at the pits front-wheel drive [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah he's holding it holy what are you looking at Randy the drive shafts not the problem it is the pinion yoke it's totally gone

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