Thread: Burnouts gone wrong

Hi,
I would imagine a fair spray of hot debris could come from the tyres as well.
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I am at a loss to understand where the fuel came from - these vehicles are all scutineered (maybe not all that well) so you would expect the fuel cap etc to be secure etc.

Did it in fact have one of those flame thrower type fuel injectors that squirt fuel into the tailpipe to be ignited by the exhaust?

This was the Centre Nats event in Alice.
The "burnout pad" is a recent addition to the Alice Springs Inland Drag Strip.
Apparently methanol fueled cars have not been considered previously to have used the pad and clearly the organisors have been caught well and truly behind the game.

Busy day and night for us following this incident.


I am a bit of a "petrol head" but still can't fathom why anybody would want to be that close to the fumes, noise and inevitable flying chunks of molten rubber, steel belts and often scalding oil and coolant from failed high stress components.
It seems a logical common sense thing to me but that isn't necessarily the same for others.
If a person was new to the event and excited it does stand that a certain level of trust has been placed in the infrastructure and officials running of the event to protect unknowing patrons to much better level than this.

Looks more like unburnt fuel from running engine rich and revs up... The exhaust looks larger than needs to be, revs up, and lots of unburnt fuel in pipe, flames will come out...

Even your old series Landy's can do that if you have some goose trying to be a hero....

Alice at the moment would have lots of dry feed, thus the fire in the dry grass...


Plus people close and probably wearing synthetic materials...

that was a petrol fire, methanol during the day you cant see the flame only the heat haze so with that yellow flame its petrol.

from the look of the car considering it has a blower on it as well would be running rich so as not to lean out at boost/rpm the car swung around they got out of the throttle but with the boost still their on a carbs its pulled the fuel through engine and pumped it out the exhaust but with no air to ignite it in the pipe as soon as the throttle has been cracked open pipes have a heap of air as well as pressure in them blows the fuel out of the hot pipes basically creating a flame thrower.
this could also happen if it has an old mechanical constant flow injection system as the injectors never shut off so they are constantly pouring fuel in.

some cars would have it setup that way on purpose to put on more of a show and be more spectacular as burnout comps are about putting on a show.

nothing to do with pipe size engine would be at least 600hp and would need at least twin 3in pipes

their is a concrete wall barrier for the cars, then their is cyclone fence for the spectators which does seem a bit close i think speedway its got to be at least 2m back that seems to be only 1m, other issue is because they have used roadside barrier's as the wall they don't seal against the ground which allowed the flames to go through under the wall into the spectators.

why are people so close because they want to be as close to the action/danger as possible to get the biggest buzz same reason people sit on the boundary line at footy.

but with that said i still don't get why people get so pumped over burnouts i don't mind doing one but after 2 or 3 they are all pretty much the same

Slightly off topic but watching YouTube thread “ I got bogged at Inskip Point” the number of people standing around snatch straps etc is amazing. So standing next to dangerous things isn’t limited to burnout crowd.

Im a petrol head also but just don't get that whole scene.
I was racing in an event at Eastern creek one day though with Porsches , Lotus, Alfas etc etc etc etc and we had about 40 spectators.
The burnout day at the dragstrip next door had a queue out to the main road. So its popular.
I find it hard enough to get the molten rubber off the nose of my car after a race let alone getting it off my skin or out of my eyes. Hope they all run scatter shields on the flywheel also.