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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Something went wrong with the onboard fire suppression. These things have enough of that to save a sinking aircraft carrier. You'll notice that the announcer mentioned several times how unusual it was to have such prolonged fire onboard of one of these cars. The fuel, unlike gasoline, will not burn in an unconfined space. It's actually pretty darn hard to light the stuff. The cars can't even start on it. When you see the guy squirting fuel into the throttles to start the motor, that is actually gasoline. It has to run on that to build some heat before it will run on the nitro mix. That had to be oil that was sprayed around when the top of the motor popped off. When that happened, the car should have been engulfed in suppressant. It wasn't. Might be part of why he was so angry.
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Dang, didn't realize the stoichometric ratio was that different..