Someone had a bad day at the track and I hope I never need this fire crew.
https://youtu.be/xUWli15JPJQ

 

1) Poor guy, his car is ****ed. He even popped the hood for them.
2) You call that a fire crew???
3) Were they drag racing a hurricane?

 

It was like watching the Keystone cops try to put out a fire.

 

The wind caused this to get outta control fast. I would wager that even this obviously untrained, unpracticed crew would have been able to put out a fire that wasn't fed as much oxygen due to the headwind on that day.

Also, you never open the hood. Ever. Even with that wind, the fire would pop right into your face, or just be fed worse. What they did there is correct, pop it, leave it like that, spray into the opening. Get it knocked down, THEN open the hood.

But again, the wind was really making that a cauldron, rather bad luck all the way 'round.

 

Should of tried popping open that hood and spray.

 

Oh my God, would you look at that!!!


Okay, this is my final one. I really hope Stage 3 sees this!

 

GET THE WAUTTA!!!

 

That's some funny shiz. Lol

 

I feeeeeeeeeeel sorry for him

 

Man, I feel for that dude! I would be crying in my sleep. LOL
Good luck explaining that to the insurance company. Looks like he's on the hook for the totaled car. Wicked sucks.


LMMFAO
JUST LOOK AT IT WOULD YAAAA?!?!?

 

wow that's terrible. That started out as such a small fire.

Question for you guys, so that's essentially a total loss, right? And how does insurance figure in? Since he was on the track, is he just S.O.L.? Meaning, insurance doesn't cover that? He's out 30k?

edit: that's why I'll never track/race my car....

 

Awesome job on the guys part. Popping that hood would have caused something similar to a backdraft in a home/door situation...
That fire was hungry!

 

hahaha I love the look on that guy's face

 

Yeah I that's a total loss except for the scrap value of the car and maybe resale of any parts that didn't get destroyed. I imagine he's not covered either as 99.9% of insurance companies won't cover you on the track unless you get some specific short term track coverage. There is a link to a GoFundMe for him, so I'm assuming he's not covered.

 

Track insurance exists... Otherwise just the cost of doing business. Gotta pay to play.

 

A lot of people track their cars, and that's because it's the only legal way to actually DRIVE the car, and enjoy it for what it is: a driving machine. Some of us want to feel the thrill speed and limits of traction bring, not just look at pretty pictures.

And yes, there is track insurance. It's expensive, but you have to pay to play.

 

Holy crap!! I'm gonna start looking at fire extinguishers for the car

 

Like that would help in that situation! 😢

 

Even if he towed it away from the track, once the ins company finds out that fire was fueled nitrous they won't pay.