Nascar car crashed into jet engine track dryer. Huge fire

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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

[JBoy]

1. Holy shit. That's some fire.

[Rosco T.]

2. GOOD LORD! n/m

[hobbit709]

3. Jet fuel is basically kerosene.

[eShirl]

4. bwahahaha

does this mean I can watch House soon?

[tridim]

5. Cencel the race.

Forever.

This sport is pointless, stupid and boring.

[eShirl]

9. it's like, look! they're going around to the left again!

[tridim]

15. I tried to watch earlier and fell asleep.

Nearly the most boring thing I've ever seen on TV, and that includes Republican debates.

[ohheckyeah]

32. Sports in general are pointless

except for winning. I think baseball is stupid, boring and pointless but can accept other people enjoy it.

[trumad]

42. Let me guess

Always picked last in pick up games.

[ohheckyeah]

47. No,

not always picked last. If Nascar is pointless then so are other sports.

[cpwm17]

35. Then don't watch it

The purpose of life is to enjoy oneself. If some people enjoy the sport, then for them NASCAR gets to the heart of what it means to be alive.

But I guess you are too busy doing important stuff like feeding orphan children to have any time for such enjoyment.

[tridim]

45. Formula I isn't boring, Rally racing isn't boring, just modern NASCAR apparently.

[marmar]

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

...... like Monte Carlo or Rio.

[bvar22]

50. F1 IS boring.

The race is essentially OVER after the qualifying,
and the team with the Most Money usually qualifies on the Poll.
Actually passing someone on the track in an F1 race is a rare event.

Now if you want to talk "boring", there is GOLF.
It is hard for me to understand HOW someone can play Golf for entertainment,
but is beyond my comprehension WHY someone would watch it on TV!

Even you must admit that driving a Cup Car on the track in Daytona would be exciting,
even if you were the only car on the track, and nobody was in the stands.

[L. Coyote]

6. Better idea. NEVER turn of Faux News.

Boycott these wingnuts!! And tell everyone you do so.

[Renew Deal]

12. It's not fox news

It was fox network.

[mindwalker_i]

7. This almost sounds like the making of a Darwin award

Jet fuel on a race track. What could go wrong?

[Renew Deal]

14. lol

[saras]

28. Nah, you want to see Darwin awards, watch school-bus figure-8 racing

[ScreamingMeemie]

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

safety truck"

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I did and they had Farrakhan on

will look for it online

[eShirl]

13. fox network, not fox news

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Frasier

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Video online

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

[Renew Deal]

18. Thanks

[Throd]

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

...doing something I don't like.

[JBoy]

21. That's pretty much it, here.

[.99center]

30. And at the track

Most of the people I know that are nascar fan's act the same way, no one was hurt it's part of the sport and half the reason why people watch

[ohheckyeah]

34. Really.

It's rather pathetic.

[Blue Owl]

20. We tried to warn them that Santorum on the track...

Results in a loss of control...

[cherokeeprogressive]

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

[bullwinkle428]

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

in the lead at the time of the crash!

[kestrel91316]

24. They run the Daytona 500 at night now??

[Renew Deal]

25. It was rescheduled twice because of rain.

[eShirl]

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

[ohheckyeah]

33. It was raining.....

they had to postpone it from yesterday. Had they tried to run under the lights last night they would have been up against the Academy Awards and been running into the wee hours of the morning. They started the race when it quit raining today and the track was dry....I'm sure there was no intent to maliciously pre-empt the finale of House.

[eShirl]

38. I thought my sarcasm was sufficiently, blantantly obvious

as to make the sarcasm icon redundant. Wrong again, O Self.

[ohheckyeah]

52. Sorry - I had just gotten up

and wasn't fully awake. duh

[muriel_volestrangler]

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

Seems dumb to have it as 'standard' with cars whizzing passed them:

The NASCAR announcers said it's standard procedure for the jet dry trucks to come out on the track during a caution.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/30555443/detail.html

[Union Scribe]

43. One of the announcers said they do it to clear debris

by blowing it off the track while they're in the delays.

[Ron Green]

26. Yeeee haw!!! I like to see shit burn.

[Motown_Johnny]

29. I was wondering if some of the air got under the front spoiler

and made the car lose control


It was strange how that was the only car on the track and it seemed to be drawn right to that truck.

[ohheckyeah]

31. Montoya

had reported a vibration in all gears......there was something wrong with the car but they hadn't been able to find anything definite when he was in the pits. I'm sure there will be an investigation. Montoya was lucky he didn't end up torched.

The track crew did a great job of getting the track cleaned up.

[Elwood P Dowd]

36. Finally, someone posts what really happened.

Montoya lost all control of the car after he left the pits during a caution. He has won F-1 races and the Indy 500 along with NASCAR races, so he is NOT some incompetent driver. When something under the car is about to break, there is only so much a pit crew or driver can do under caution to find the problem until the damn thing finally fails. In this case, the part failed and he lost control just as he approached the jet dryer.

Oh, and Montoya is from Columbia and has raced all over the world in carts, open wheel, and stock cars. He won his first NASCAR race back when they ran the road course in Mexico City.

[ohheckyeah]

49. Yeah...

all these opinions on how it's nothing but cars turning left make it obvious they know nothing about it.

Montoya is a helluva a driver. Let's face it, no matter who we like and don't like, they are all pretty damn good drivers to be running around a track at almost 200 mph just inches away from each other.

Jimmie Johnson sure took a hard hit when he went into the wall....sad he got knocked out of the race so early. It was good to see Junior running well, though.

[raouldukelives]

37. Better hurry up with that Keystone deal

We need it for important stuff.

[quaker bill]

39. Repaving the track was interesting

Asphalt machines really do not work well at the angles of the curves. They had to hold them up on the high banks with cranes.. Torching up the asphalt may require a patch....

I went to one race there. My son was in the scouts and because of their community service work, got a free father-son day. It is amazingly loud and amazingly fast sitting up next to the wall. This is something you can't really get a true feel for seeing them on TV. Once was enough for me, but it was a good bit more impressive than I expected.

[FSogol]

41. Perfect metaphor for the Santorum campaign

[a kennedy]

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

Wisconsin native Matt Kenseth!!!

[FarCenter]

46. How long will Fiat continue to run NASCAR?

The three Dodges in the race came in 32, 34 and 41st.

[Blue_Tires]

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