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    Ah, drag boat racing; one of those not-at-all-insane sports that ranks right up there with cliff diving and playing catch with a hand grenade. Cruising along at 200 MPH, all it takes is one little ripple in the water — a slight breeze, a trout, an errant leaf on the surface, anything, really — to send your boat flipping and asploding into a thousand pieces.

    A rather amazing sequence of photos here by Mark Rebilas of James Ray's drag boat losing it during a race at Firebird Lake in Phoenix, Ariz. There's nothing that says "I came in second" quite like the photo below..


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