<\/span>\u201cI did a burnout, then staged the car and was ready to race,\u201d David recalled. \u201cThe lights went out and I nailed the throttle, and a few seconds into the run the bloody steering wheel came off!\u201d You can see that particular moment in our video. \u201cI got off the throttle as I struggled to get the wheel back on while veering towards the centreline,\u201d David continued. \u201cLuckily I had a sole pass and only took out a timing marker instead of another racer.\u201d The reason for the mishap was simply that the steering wheel had not been fully clipped into place. Talk about Murphy\u2019s Law!<\/p>\nAfter a few tweaks in the pits the tough Falcon was back for more. This time the steering wheel was definitely fastened correctly \u2013 and lucky for David that it was. He launched the car hard and it gripped so well that the front wheels came up a few feet in the air. The whole time he had the throttle pinned all the way and the nitrous \u2018go\u2019 button deployed. The result? A wild wheels-up ride!<\/p>\n As the car came back down the headers scraped the tar, resulting in some sparks, but no major damage was done.<\/p>\n David plans to race Murphy\u2019s Law regularly and is aiming to run in the 8.50sec zone naturally aspirated over the quarter, and with the nitrous on board, around 7.90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Murphy\u2019s wild Murphy\u2019s Law Falcon had a memorable debut at Powercruise Sydney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[30,566,570,1918],"coauthors":[765],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ford-falcon-pro-street-murphys-law.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>The car then lined up for another run, but was pushed back off the startline with a slight oil leak coming from the oil breather\/catch can.<\/p>\n
<\/span>\u201cThat last pass was wild; the front end came up and just kept going up and up, so I just held on for the ride, not realising my thumb was still on the nitrous!\u201d David joked. \u201cIt was one hell of an adrenaline rush, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n