Forget to Tighten Something???

[Pyro81]

it seems like it would take more than a driveshaft braking and polevaulting to knock the rear end out, the mythbusters car didn't even do that. And if it was the driveshaft, with the force it used to knock out the rear end a driveshaft loop doesn't look like it would have stopped that, have you seen how week some of those loops are? Very thin metal.

It doesn't have to be super strong. It's only there to keep the driveshaft from falling to the ground in case it breaks.
IIRC the mythbusters car did break some of the suspension. And you have to remember this guys car is a whole lot more powerful than the mythbusters car.

[gyger]

Exactly drive shaft loops will only have the weight of
the drive shaft to hold up which isn't very much.

Atleast it happened there instead of the end of the track.
I wonder what that case and yoke looked like afterwards.

[Clutch]

yeah your right, with the extra power and torque being transmitted i can see it doing it, especially with the rpms the shaft is running.

[Yofavcracka]

now thats a team you can count on!