Nasty fire at Main Event

Jon Connolly · Post by **Jon Connolly** » Mon May 30, 11 1:48 pm

Luckily there were no injuries

John · Post by **John** » Mon May 30, 11 1:54 pm

Good job on getting out the car before it went up properly.

Looks like tough stuff to stop!

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon May 30, 11 3:38 pm

Safe as houses that Nitrous isn't it.

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Mon May 30, 11 4:50 pm

now that did take some putting out

Post by **TyreFryer** » Mon May 30, 11 6:53 pm

Good advert for NOS with their banner underneath.

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Mon May 30, 11 7:07 pm

Didn't see the start of that but it looked remarkably like a recent promod fire in the US in Vegas. In that case the fuelpumps were still running pumping out fuel to keep the fire going. High winds fanned the flames. Looked very similar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kp9jR0ZtlA

Either way, this one has the look of petrol being fed to the fire, nasty one. At least the fire guys has enough HP to put it out!

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sun Jun 05, 11 9:14 am

Very Sad indeed!

With all this modern tech we have, you'd think that a fuel cut off valve would be a must in sub ten second cars???
And where was the in built fire extinguisher?

Bacca.

Adrian Worman · Post by **Adrian Worman** » Sun Jun 05, 11 9:59 am

baccaruda wrote:Very Sad indeed!

With all this modern tech we have, you'd think that a fuel cut off valve would be a must in sub ten second cars???
And where was the in built fire extinguisher?

Bacca.

Exactly, "Safety Safari" my arse

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Sun Jun 05, 11 10:40 am

I had a good look round this in the shed at the back of the start line very sad indeed, trouble was we had a 20/30mph head wind that really fanned the flames

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Sun Jun 05, 11 12:17 pm

WHAT A BLOODY SHAME, STILL IF THE DRIVER WAS OK THATS THE IMPORTANT BIT, AND YES IT TOOK SOME GETTING OUT, WHAT FUEL WAS IT RUNNING ON JIM,

GTXJim · Post by **GTXJim** » Sun Jun 05, 11 1:35 pm

It's a nitrous pro mod, word was it was the N2O that kept the fire going

MrNorm · Post by **MrNorm** » Sun Jun 05, 11 3:25 pm

GTXJim wrote:It's a nitrous pro mod, word was it was the N2O that kept the fire going

That fire was sure looks like it was being fed by gasoline. Crazy that there is no robust fuel cutoff.