So House Kor is sponsoring Red Bull this year?

Kind of an irrelevant point. What if your headgasket fails, what if you get a fuel leak, what if you get a blowout? Point is, any number of things can bork your car, this system adds some and takes some away. Nothing is ever foolproof.

I'm figuring it was fairly inert when they put in the bucket to drive it across the beach. Otherwise they wouldn't have had cops walking 30ft in front of it. That was a hell of a shot, though. They should have put an old Toyota on top of the pile to see how far they could launch it out to sea.