A 228-MPH Mustang Drag Car Got Torn Apart at FL2K After Someone Left a Tool Under the Hood

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Drag racers obsess over the things that can kill a pass: a lazy converter, a hungry turbo, a gust of crosswind, a track temp ten degrees off the tune-up. Brett LaSala’s Sunday at Bradenton Motorsports Park was undone by something that never shows up on a datalog: a hand tool. LaSala’s bright green “Snot Rocket” Mustang was racing in eliminations at FL2K26, the October 1–4 street-car gathering in Bradenton, Florida, when its left-rear corner came apart near the top end. In his own post afterward,