http://www.youtube.com/v/iK79jODB6_I

When did you shoot that video? Thats Donald Carter's dart.(gear jammer) Hope its not to bad, but from the amount of time it burnt its probaly bad.

Donald's car has flames on it(no pun intended). I don't think that's his car. At least I hope it's not. Either way that sucks, but at least he got out.

I think that is Mike Gray on the starting line, a little hard to tell though. It doesn't look good though!

Yea there ghost flames on his car I don't think the camera picked them up. Hopefully its not his, what track was this shot at? It is down south somewhere you can here it in the voices in background.

Unfortunately it is Gearjammers Dart. Saw Mike post about it on YB.

I hope that's not Donalds car, but it looks alot like it. I have seen it many times. You are most likely going to have to fend for yourself if your car is on fire and I never see any fire fighting equipment at the finish line at any event short of national events.

I just added an onboard fire system for this reason. I will be adding a seperate system later that will have the nozzles under hood only.

Yes, It's Donald (gearjammerdart) and I. The most important thing is Donald is OK, can't say the same for the car. One of the locals posted the video on YB and it found it's way to Moparts.

Mike Gray

Its a good thing the firetruck was there.

That's terrible.

Any idea what happened to cause the fire?

Sucks for sure. saw it over on the bullet. Glad your Ok!

Oh man that is horrible. Glad no one was hurt but man that sucks.

That track owner better pony up for the loss! Not to mention had the guy got caught in the car he would probably have died from the smoke. This is totally unforgivable.

The empty fire truck is as disturbing as the vultures on their golf carts. I am sure some of them grabbed an extinguisher and went down to help. But there was one for sure that was loaded down with nothing more than spectators.
At that time , there are only tow kinds of people........part of the solution and part of the problem.
Glad he's O.K. and serious bummer about the car.

Unfortunately we see this happening more often than not. I think the track is negligent by placing the "fire" truck at the end of the track and leaving it unmanned and non functional. It cost valuable seconds (the driver was trying to start it) off of a workable solution for putting out the fire. I believe the negligence comes in the false security they are trying to project to the racers. What if they did the same thing with the ambulance?

I'm sure there will be a few liberals that chime in and say it's "all" on the driver/owner to protect their property. Remember that scenario only works when it's not yours though.

This is one instance (in my opinion) that the track was very irresponsible. I hate to see our racing facilities close down, but there are certain tracks that I won't go to just because of their reputation and stories like this are what build the reputation.

That is just terrible!

1st thankgod don's ok,i never in 35yrs of going to a track seen such freakin idiots!! where were the fire trucks operators??? i cant say how i really feel cause MOPARTS IS A FAMILY FRIENDLY SITE...

I hate to see this happen to anyone Fire Sucks!!

I had it happen to my car years ago on a street nite

Made my pass coming thru the lights a nitrous noid hung open then the car back fired and there was fire

I came around the corner just like that and there was one person down there(woman) She was like a deer in headlights. Didn't know what to do at this point it was getting as bad as the fire in the video. it took them almost 10 mins to get the broken down fire truck down there and put the thing out. By that time it was burnt pretty bad.

I was livid yelling at the track manager Etc he ended up sicking the police on me. My biggest gripe was I paid to get in and race so there was safety crew there in case this stuff happens. Now if I was racing on the street Hey would have been me to take care of the fire

But at the race track I thought thats What I paid for was if there was a problem for them to help take care of it when it happened not once it got out of control

I seen another video of another track that the ambulance didn't even have a band aid in it

Pretty scary stuff

All I can say is if it happened again I will be doing everything I can to put the fire out myself

Thats simply just amazing to watch. I cant believe what I am witnessing there. Some of you know, some dont I am sure, but I am the Chairman of the Board for a 50 year plus running dragstrip here in New York. Due to a State Supreme Court order, ( and a bunch of liberal home owners) we are only able to race on Sundays at our track do to local ordinances. As you can imagine, that puts quite a bit of financial pressure on us. The money a track makes is all in the test and tunes, fun nights etc. Race days with all the expenses are NOT the money makers contrary to what people believe. That being said, with our one day a week income, we still have a fully prepped 200 gallon foam equipped fire truck, seperate EMT vehicle, and a full staff of EMTs and personnel that are trained in using the fire truck. We also have extinguishers on the starting line, and observation man at 1/4 mile, and 2 EMTs in the fire truck at the turn off along with at least 4 fire extinguishers, and one large one at the early turn off. Witnessing what I did on this video is incredibly disturbing. There is no answer other than the owner simply NOT CARING.

And for all the golf cart vultures and ambulance chasers....STAY OUT OF THE WAY! All you do is impede the saftey staff and rescue personnel...and quite simply...get in the way!. There is nothing you can do unless you are trained EMT or rescue person...and in fact..you make things worse.Please...please....stay out of the way.

Race tracks right now are having a very difficult time surviving in itself. I would never suggest suing a race track, as it could easily close the only place many people have to race. I WOULD in this case request a meeting with the owner, bring the video, and start some dialogue. Agin, this is a total lack of saftey and certainly concern for his racers. If you choose to race at a facility like this, then shame on you.

I'm glad the driver is ok...thats what is important at the moment.