Posted by Brian Lohnes
Yikes! This is a pretty nuts video that was shot at the Texas Mile during the 2013 season by the crew at GearheadFlicks. The video, which has in car and out of car footage shows a heavily modified C6 Corvette sprinting down the course, suffering a nitrous explosion, and then roasting BAD as fire crews equipped only with extinguishers battle it. While the “pop” itself isn’t all that violent, the fact that several seconds after it the driver starts to see flames licking into the cockpit makes it kind of creepy. The dude gets the car slowed down as he is peeling off his belts, yanking the steering wheel, and then flopping out the door of the still moving Vette. For whatever reason (unless we missed seeing him do it) he did not yank the fire bottles which should have helped to at least knock this thing down. It isn’t five seconds that he’s out of the car when huge rolling flames are present. The in-car camera lives through the fire and finally falls off the mount about four minutes into the blaze. We’re thinking that the mount melted or whatever was holding it in place liquified because of the intense heat.
Safety people roll up on the car in a menagerie of vehicles and whip out fire extinguishers to battle the blaze but one thing that we expected to see never appeared. A fire truck. There are guys with the firefighter gear on and a red suv with some flashing lights on top but the best these guys had to hit the burning car with was water and foam extinguishers. The eventually got the fire out because there is a shot of it at the end all roasted, but we still expected to see a legit fire fighting truck pull up to the scene. The GearheadFlicks guys did an awesome job laying the audio from the in-car camera over their shots from out of the car. It makes you feel that you are on scene with the dudes trying to stop the fire.
There’s not a whole lot left of this Corvette’s engine bay by the time the fire quit wrecking everything. We’re just glad the driver was able to flop to safety OK.
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE A VICIOUS NITROUS FIRE FROM THE TEXAS MILE!
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