What are the best flames out of the exhaust of a racing car?

[phatgixer]

I love cars belching fire. The Aussie V8s as they change up, or the trail of flame a Mazda 787B leaves as it brakes into Indianopolis corner in night qualifying.

Why do some cars do it more than others?

[nic jones]

Not quite a racing car, but we caught an old Alfa (Giulia or similar) on a night stage on a rally and everytime he lifted off/changed gear a huge flame came out of the exhaust in the middle of the back of the car.

[megy]

Hiya, nice topic, and have wondered this myself from time to time.

Here is one of my faves, from the Dutch Supercar Championship that supported the Britcar last year.

[phatgixer]

Nice!

[GarrettMacD]

The best one I have EVER seen is Stefan Johansson in qualifying at Monaco in a turbo F1 Ferrari, it would have been around 1986/87. The guy got the picture from about 15 feet away from the car, I think he was exiting Casino square at the time.

It is awesome.

The snapper was German, IIRC, something like Ranler Schlegeler (apologies if I've got that completely wrong)

[guyh]

EDIT: Better link now, sorry chaps.

Edited by guyh on Thursday 8th March 17:43

[johnnymaestro]

I always liked this one.

Edited by johnnymaestro on Thursday 8th March 17:16

[furtive]

guyh said:

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[dougc]

furtive said:

guyh said:

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Could you kill the embedded picture? Its askinf for a password when you click on the thread.

[furtive]

It's not just racing cars that do it

[phatgixer]

Brilliant!

[agent006]

[D-Angle]

[Mannginger]

agent006 said:

Very pic

Have you got that in high-res? I quite fancy that as a desktop image!

Phil

[Eric Mc]

If you ever get to the Goodwood Revival, watch out for the Allard painted up in USAF Startegic Air Command colours. It is a real flame spitter.

[phatgixer]

agent006 said:

What is that?

It looks very saucy indeed!

[MrKipling43]

911 GT2 RSR I think (993 spec)

[Dancin]

Hope I've got this right?

Home made exhaust made out of a large Baked Bean tin after an off at Spa!

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[megy]

Front view of one for you.

[rustybin]

Dancin said:

Hope I've got this right?

Home made exhaust made out of a large Baked Bean tin after an off at Spa!

Nice engineering!