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August 08, 2009 at
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I was just flipping through the channels and saw the final night from Dodge City and Jason Meyers is luck he has a head and neck device. That crash was terrible to watch.
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August 08, 2009 at
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I was watching it too. In the first heat race I was looking at that wall thinking, " That doesn't look safe to have there." I mean a flat wall pretty well coming out of turn 4. Pretty common place to hit and with a flat wall down right danerous. I understand the principle of the water tanks to help the blow. However, what if the car starts to dump fuel? Now you have 20 gallons of Methanol and 40 gallons of water mixed in. Could make for one nice fire.
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August 08, 2009 at
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Posted By: jackhole22 on August 08 2009 at 04:08:32 PM
I was watching it too. In the first heat race I was looking at that wall thinking, " That doesn't look safe to have there." I mean a flat wall pretty well coming out of turn 4. Pretty common place to hit and with a flat wall down right danerous. I understand the principle of the water tanks to help the blow. However, what if the car starts to dump fuel? Now you have 20 gallons of Methanol and 40 gallons of water mixed in. Could make for one nice fire.
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Yea, maybe it would be wiser to onlyl carry 10 gallons of methanol and have a fuel stop.
My wife told me if I went to one more Sprint Car race
she would leave me.................I'm sure gonna miss
that ol' gal.
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August 08, 2009 at
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Posted By: jackhole22 on August 08 2009 at 04:08:32 PM
I was watching it too. In the first heat race I was looking at that wall thinking, " That doesn't look safe to have there." I mean a flat wall pretty well coming out of turn 4. Pretty common place to hit and with a flat wall down right danerous. I understand the principle of the water tanks to help the blow. However, what if the car starts to dump fuel? Now you have 20 gallons of Methanol and 40 gallons of water mixed in. Could make for one nice fire.
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Buy a gallon of methanol, then add 2 gallons of water to it.....Dump it out, and then try and light it.....I promise you that it will not burn.
The water cuts the methanol to a point where there is no flammability,,,,that's why all of the IRL pits have water buckets. Any time you see a methanol pit fire in the IRL, the crews usually immediately dump water on the fire.
Vitor Meira had a pit fire this year at Indy - after the fire was extinguished by crewmen pouring water on the car, Meira returned to the race.
Chuck.....
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August 08, 2009 at
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ok, then my mistake cause the last time I saw methanol try to be put out with water all it did was spread out. It did die a little but ended up pretty well as a moat on the bottom, of fire.
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