The newspaper article appears to have some critical errors, if one believes the accounts of the supposed eye-witnesses - Deadly Day at the Drags The account seems to be more believable that the driver got out of shape, pulled his chute and went out of control just past the guard rail which ended well short of the finish line - another account says at about the 1000 foot mark. The guy who had dropped his beer was on the wrong side of the fence and got tangled in the chute, as I read it...