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(85,183 posts) Mon Feb 27, 2012, 10:53 PM Feb 2012

Nascar car crashed into jet engine track dryer. Huge fire [View all]

Last edited Tue Feb 28, 2012, 12:16 AM - Edit history (3)

There was jet fuel on fire on the track.

What a crazy incident. The race was on a yellow flag. A race car was passing a track dryer which contains a jet engine and jet fuel. The car had some sort of problem, lost control and slammed into the jet dryer. The dryer exploded and the race car was destroyed. Jet fuel leaked onto the track and was pouring down the track on fire. Thankfully the fire was put out and everyone is OK.

The driver was Juan Pablo Mantoya.

Video: http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2012/2/27/2829676/daytona-500-crash-video-juan-pablo-montoya-jet-dryer-fire

http://www.sbnation.com/nascar/2012/2/27/2829684/juan-pablo-montoya-crash-video-jet-dryer-daytona-500-fire

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Nascar car crashed into jet engine track dryer. Huge fire [View all] Renew Deal Feb 2012 OP

Holy shit. That's some fire. JBoy Feb 2012 #1

GOOD LORD! n/m Rosco T. Feb 2012 #2

Jet fuel is basically kerosene. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #3

bwahahaha eShirl Feb 2012 #4

Cencel the race. tridim Feb 2012 #5

it's like, look! they're going around to the left again! eShirl Feb 2012 #9

I tried to watch earlier and fell asleep. tridim Feb 2012 #15

Sports in general are pointless ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #32

Let me guess trumad Feb 2012 #42

No, ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #47

Then don't watch it cpwm17 Feb 2012 #35

Formula I isn't boring, Rally racing isn't boring, just modern NASCAR apparently. tridim Feb 2012 #45

They're all boring, but at least with Formula One you get the benefit of great scenery..... marmar Feb 2012 #48

F1 IS boring. bvar22 Feb 2012 #50

Better idea. NEVER turn of Faux News. L. Coyote Feb 2012 #6

It's not fox news Renew Deal Feb 2012 #12

This almost sounds like the making of a Darwin award mindwalker_i Feb 2012 #7

lol Renew Deal Feb 2012 #14

Nah, you want to see Darwin awards, watch school-bus figure-8 racing saras Feb 2012 #28

What amazes me is how calm Montoya's (sp?) voice is when he says, "Yeah, I just hit the ScreamingMeemie Feb 2012 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author L. Coyote Feb 2012 #10

I did and they had Farrakhan on nadinbrzezinski Feb 2012 #11

fox network, not fox news eShirl Feb 2012 #13

Frasier nadinbrzezinski Feb 2012 #16

Video online nadinbrzezinski Feb 2012 #17

Thanks Renew Deal Feb 2012 #18

This is funny because something bad happened to people I don't know... Throd Feb 2012 #19

That's pretty much it, here. JBoy Feb 2012 #21

And at the track .99center Feb 2012 #30

Really. ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #34

We tried to warn them that Santorum on the track... Blue Owl Feb 2012 #20

At this moment, Tony Raines' car is in 3rd place. n/t cherokeeprogressive Feb 2012 #23

The Santorum car is in 3rd place right now. Think of the nightmarish possibility of it being bullwinkle428 Feb 2012 #22

They run the Daytona 500 at night now?? kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #24

It was rescheduled twice because of rain. Renew Deal Feb 2012 #25

They had a chance to pre-empt the winter finale of House, and took it. eShirl Feb 2012 #27

It was raining..... ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #33

I thought my sarcasm was sufficiently, blantantly obvious eShirl Feb 2012 #38

Sorry - I had just gotten up ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #52

If the track was dry, why did they have a jet engine going round in the middle of the race? muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #40

One of the announcers said they do it to clear debris Union Scribe Feb 2012 #43

Yeeee haw!!! I like to see shit burn. Ron Green Feb 2012 #26

I was wondering if some of the air got under the front spoiler Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #29

Montoya ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #31

Finally, someone posts what really happened. Elwood P Dowd Feb 2012 #36

Yeah... ohheckyeah Feb 2012 #49

Better hurry up with that Keystone deal raouldukelives Feb 2012 #37

Repaving the track was interesting quaker bill Feb 2012 #39

Perfect metaphor for the Santorum campaign FSogol Feb 2012 #41

So glad no one got hurt....but my #4 boyfriend won the race!!! a kennedy Feb 2012 #44

How long will Fiat continue to run NASCAR? FarCenter Feb 2012 #46

I've been watching racing for years, and never seen anything that strange... Blue_Tires Feb 2012 #51