WORSHAM WALKED AWAY

DRO photog Todd Dziadosz caught this sequence of Del Worsham's explosion at Reading, PA.

Worsham had this to say about the incident: "There's some history with that body, that a lot of people don't know. This Valvoline car was actually the Mountain Dew car we exploded and tossed 30-feet in the air in Chicago two years ago. We fixed it up, and repainted it for this special edition deal. We won't be repainting it any more. The biggest surviving pieces are the roof and the rear wing. Everything else is in little bits. The force of the concussion popped opened my visor a little, and I got some nice hot oil in the face for a bit. I also got knocked around in there for a while, as the car fishtailed on me. I was battling it, trying to get it stopped, but it was very violent until it hit the sand. I'm a bit lucky, and very relieved to be okay. It wasn't a lot of fun. But, the bottom line is I'm fine."

Whew. [10-10-2003]