{"id":52810,"date":"2018-06-25T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=52810"},"modified":"2018-07-06T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T17:20:14","slug":"musis-crash-stops-the-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/musis-crash-stops-the-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Musi’s Crash Stops ‘The Shocker’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Lizzy Musi crashed boyfriend Kye Kelley\u2019s famous \u201cShocker\u201d Chevrolet Camaro in testing at Northstar Dragway in Denton, Texas on Thursday night, Kelley stated the incident was due to replacement of the Street Outlaw class car\u2019s steering wheel, which moved the location of its transbrake button.<\/p>\n

Prepping for this weekend\u2019s season opener for the Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings race at Topeka, Kansas, Musi, a second-generation racer hit the left side retaining wall. As Kelley explained, \u201cLizzy is fine besides her pride and feelings, which is most important. \u2018The Shocker,’ on the other hand, is hurt pretty bad and some way, somehow I\u2019ll find the funds to get it fixed so we can continue to make history as a drag racing couple, doing what we do.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make a long story short,\u201d Kelley said, \u201cwe replaced the steering wheel yesterday because we noticed a crack in it. With that being said, the transbrake button was in a different location. My reverse lights are wired to come on when the transbrake is engaged. About 1.8 seconds into the run, right before the shift change she accidentally hit the button, locked the transmission up and the car immediately slid left and hit the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelley will compete at the Heartland Motorsports Park competition this weekend in an all-new, late-model, fifth-generation Camaro named \u201cAftershock.\u201d That race car made its public debt last fall, he said. Although the cost to repair \u201cThe Shocker\u201d is extensive, Kelley is hoping to have the car back together in time for the No Prep Kings tour in mid-July at Memphis Motorsports Park. \u201cIt\u2019s a sad day for us because that car is a huge part of our life; just tough luck,\u201d Kelley said.<\/p>\n

Musi, 27, whose father is a noted engine builder as well as a racer, intends to compete next weekend at Richmond, Virginia, in PDRA\u2019s Firecracker Nationals, where she\u2019ll be behind the wheel of her Pro Nitrous race car, Frank Brandao\u2019s 2015 Dodge Dart. Lizzy Musi became the first woman in PDRA competition to break 200 mph in eighth-mile Pro Mod racing in 2014.<\/p>\n

Kye Kelley\u2019s fame has come from his appearance on TV\u2019s Street Outlaws<\/em>. The Mississippi born-and-bred racer is best known for the third-generation car \u201cThe Shocker,\u201d which he built from a hulk purchased on RacingJunk.com, using income earned in an oilfield job. \u201cI got that car and I replaced everything that needed to be replaced, little by little, as I had the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the car is hurt, at least the driver had zero physical injuries. The cost to repair or replace Kelley\u2019s \u201cThe Shocker\u201d is one that drag racers throughout the community face. It can take a racer out of commission for a short period or for a longer amount of time, depending on the builder\u2019s ability to land the finances – and the time involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Lizzy Musi crashed boyfriend Key Kelley\u2019s famous \u201cShocker\u201d Chevrolet Camaro in testing at Northstar Dragway in Denton, Texas on Thursday night, Kelley stated the incident was due to replacement of the Street Outlaw class car\u2019s steering wheel, which moved the location of its transbrake button.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,5029],"tags":[5614,412,6059,5381,41],"class_list":["post-52810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-racing","tag-anne-proffit","tag-crash","tag-key-kelley","tag-lizzy-musi","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/lead-min-3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-dJM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53166,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52810\/revisions\/53166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}