Slight correction. Methanol burns colorless in natural sunlight. At night or under artificial lighting the flames are visible.

And there was the Allmandinger fire in Austrailia in 2006. It feels a bit more like the Talladega Nights fire.

Indeed. You’re not seeing the methanol that’s burning — check the front page again, I just put up an article on Mears’ fire there.

The fire was an oil fire. Methanol burns with an invisible flame. Look up Rick Mears put fire from the same 1981 500 to see what I mean.

No fair, they didn’t test the Mustang in real-world conditions.

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I remember watching the Stan Fox wreck as a kid, and was so happy he made it through that I asked my parents to help me send him a “get well soon” card, which I assume we sent through his race team. About six months later I got a handwritten letter from Stan Fox thanking me for the card and talking about how excited…

Not really. The track record was set in 1996 at 236. The cars have been significantly slowed down since then. If the CART-style cars were still at the Brickyard through the year 2000, the average speed for a qualifying lap would undoubtedly be above 240 mph average, easily.

Hell, in 1998 on the Michigan and Auto Club…

Best/only sub 5k sleeper I could find on ebay:

All on the backs of the Escalade.

If you look in the possible causes section the first mentioned is the unreasonably low air pressure Ford specified. 26 psi is a flat tire. This may have had a little to do with how Firestone built the tires, but I believe they took the fall to keep their supplier contract, which they lost anyway.

You said “sidewalk”, but I think you meant “pedestrian”.

Starred for historical inaccuracy.

Dutch. The Dutch founded NY.

New York is a slum at best, cotd was spot on.

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I was literally writing this post while getting fired. A new experience.