I was also at Cordova the evening that the car lost the right rear slick, going through the traps, and wound up sliding through the sand trap and into the neighboring corn field on it's side.

While the cause of the crash was never made public, I have always suspected that Dom ran over a piece of debris, that track personnel missed while cleaning up after a AA/FA crash (The Sterling Engineering hemi powered T roadster) that had happened just prior to the ill-fated Paris crash.

Damage from the crash resulted in the chassis being badly twisted and since being rebuilt I don't believe the car has made a single pass.