Maybe re-post....



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1UHdtrVKI

 

Christ! What happened there?

Should have bought a Ford

 

never good to see

 

Electrical short from a cable apparently near to the Turbo so i believe....

 

Never a good way to go, believe me I've been there

But they really took their time to put the damn thing out, thing looks like it had been cooking for a good while

 

Ouch, never a nice thing to see.

 

poor skyline

 

not good

 

makes you think

the price of a good auto extinguisher system to the price of repairing your pride and joy

next cossie i have will be getting one

 

Quick way to spend a lot of money, especially if your car isnt insured when at a trackday.

 

Marshalls at combe don't tend to be the most spritely when it comes to putting out fires lol, seen quite a few in the past that have gone up in smoke before they've bothered to come wandering over with a fire extinguisher.....spose the average age of about 60 doesn't help
As said, expensive moment

 

They dealt with Stu's fire amazingly quickly, it depends where you are when it happens and how easily the marshalls can get to you without endagering anyone, in the main they do a good job there IMHO overall

 

i was there but i didnt see that!

 

His fire happened right in front of them as he came in to the pits didn't it?
I remember 2 serious car fires in particular, funnily enough at japfest iirc a few years back where both cars caught fire on track (zensport scooby and an rx7 drift car) and both, imo as well as people i was with were dealt with very poorly by the marshalls who despite being nearby made no rush whatsoever to get to the cars, and in both instances the driver of the car ended up running to the side of the track for a fire extinguisher themselves!
I was only commenting in jest and i do realise the marshalls are there as a labour of love rather than as a job as such though

 

Ouch, looks like a well modified R34 too.. so a fair bit of money going up in smoke there.


Cheers,
Grant

 

I had a fire on track, and the marshalls flagged me down to tell me I had a fire (it was under the car and we couldnt see it from in the car so didnt know it had happened) and they were straight over to deal with it as soon as I stopped after seeing them flag me down, so they do seem to try and deal with it. But I believe that their policy is of flesh before metal, so if there are still speeding cars on the track they wont rush to get over to the track and tackle a fire before those cars are slowed down by the flags and lights etc unless there is someone actually trapped in it as they dont want marshalls to risk their lives just to save a car from fire.

 

gutted for the owner