The engines in any drag racing sport are continually pushed to their breaking point. Below is a compilation of uphill sand racing competitors in UAE unfortunately pushing their engines beyond the breaking point. If you don’t like seeing engines get destroyed then please turn back now. Otherwise sit back and watch as turbo inline-six and V8 engines go boom.
Source: PeterBjorck
It sure is interesting just how many of them blow there, seen these videos before. What do you think is the main reason, apart from obvious sand ingestion? Oiling not adjusted for the incline, total disregard of irrelevant things like air-fuel ratio?
I am not really sure. All those could be contributing factors to engines that are just boosted very close to their breaking point.