You got out pretty quick then, I was right next to this thing when he turned on the nitrous pump and the line wasn't connected, the Halon put out the fire under the hood but plenty of fuel got under the car and was a bear to put out. Its amazing how much just a couple of seconds that the pump was turned on how much fuel was dumped. The track staff didn't handle the sitution well, but the crew easily rolled the car back out of harms way.
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There was a second fire the same day about 2hrs later with one of our street cars, Marino Cintrons "Bad To The Bone" El Camino. The car is a street legend here in Philly and after residing in a garage for over 10yrs, he brought it out to run in the index race, it's first pass it labored off the line and at half track the fire was way too intense to help recover the vehicle, with a full bottle of nitrous in the car needless to say there was no hope of it being saved. Out of respect we have never posted the picture of his car burning to the ground.
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Mark Bowen also had a huge fire that ended his season at the final of 2002, as another one of thos damn fuel lines was loose and after a 100 foot wheelstand it all went wrong, the fire was evident as he passed the 200ft mark and the car rolled to a stop, the track staff also got there a quickly. Mark was OK and the last thing you want to do is open a hood under those circumstances. The result was a huge blast.
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