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NitroWars

Original Poster:

667 posts

232 months

BennettRacing

729 posts

232 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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NitroWars said:
Where is the fire truck?!

liner33

10,861 posts

223 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Wow its like thermite!!

Did no-one think to turn the bottle off though???


Eurodragster Tog

657 posts

228 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Compared to Jorgen Karlsson's and Ulf Rapp's incidents that was nothing smile

It was when Jorgen Karlsson had his nitrous fire in testing at the Pod that I concluded that Ian Marshall must have several pairs of eyes and ears and several brains since he notices absolutely everything. Jorgen's car was drawing to a halt at the top end after a relatively innocuous-looking shake-and-nitrous-burp launch, and as he rolled to a stop and as we were all sitting there thinking that Jorgen had had his bell well rung Ian called the fire crew out to him. "Go and take a look, it looks like he's still got a problem", said Ian on the radio. Seconds later, as the fire crew were on their way, boom!

We all wondered what Ian had seen that we had not, to this day I don't know.

Tet

1,196 posts

225 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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I still think Donnie Krusinski's nitrous fire is one of the most impressive demonstrations of how nitrous can ruin your day in a matter of seconds.

obsession

94 posts

214 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Eurodragster Tog said:
Compared to Jorgen Karlsson's and Ulf Rapp's incidents that was nothing smile

It was when Jorgen Karlsson had his nitrous fire in testing at the Pod that I concluded that Ian Marshall must have several pairs of eyes and ears and several brains since he notices absolutely everything. Jorgen's car was drawing to a halt at the top end after a relatively innocuous-looking shake-and-nitrous-burp launch, and as he rolled to a stop and as we were all sitting there thinking that Jorgen had had his bell well rung Ian called the fire crew out to him. "Go and take a look, it looks like he's still got a problem", said Ian on the radio. Seconds later, as the fire crew were on their way, boom!

We all wondered what Ian had seen that we had not, to this day I don't know.
I remember that well - It has to be one of the worst nitrous fires I think I have ever seen also. I remember the boom as the fire bottles went up (yes they actually exploded) and the whole car just burnt to the ground in a matter of seconds. I remember the car was painted a similar colour to Obsession at the time, we were also there testing, and people were running over thinking it was us, all you saw very slowly creeping through the top end was a car on fire, and very earily everything was absolutely silent - until the boom, and the heat that came off it! we were parked against the fence right on the finish line, were the car came to a halt, and it was like somebody had turned a blow torch on right in front of you - it was that hot.

But as alway the fire crew were right there and put it out very quickly.

Now remind me - why do I run nitrous???????????

BennettRacing

729 posts

232 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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obsession said:
Eurodragster Tog said:
Compared to Jorgen Karlsson's and Ulf Rapp's incidents that was nothing smile

It was when Jorgen Karlsson had his nitrous fire in testing at the Pod that I concluded that Ian Marshall must have several pairs of eyes and ears and several brains since he notices absolutely everything. Jorgen's car was drawing to a halt at the top end after a relatively innocuous-looking shake-and-nitrous-burp launch, and as he rolled to a stop and as we were all sitting there thinking that Jorgen had had his bell well rung Ian called the fire crew out to him. "Go and take a look, it looks like he's still got a problem", said Ian on the radio. Seconds later, as the fire crew were on their way, boom!

We all wondered what Ian had seen that we had not, to this day I don't know.
I remember that well - It has to be one of the worst nitrous fires I think I have ever seen also. I remember the boom as the fire bottles went up (yes they actually exploded) and the whole car just burnt to the ground in a matter of seconds. I remember the car was painted a similar colour to Obsession at the time, we were also there testing, and people were running over thinking it was us, all you saw very slowly creeping through the top end was a car on fire, and very earily everything was absolutely silent - until the boom, and the heat that came off it! we were parked against the fence right on the finish line, were the car came to a halt, and it was like somebody had turned a blow torch on right in front of you - it was that hot.

But as alway the fire crew were right there and put it out very quickly.

Now remind me - why do I run nitrous???????????
We were there too, nasty stuff.

anonymous-user

75 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Tet said:
I still think Donnie Krusinski's nitrous fire is one of the most impressive demonstrations of how nitrous can ruin your day in a matter of seconds.
Okay, thats truly impressive!

Jon C

3,214 posts

268 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Paging Jerry Eckman...

dan tournay

483 posts

229 months

Thursday 5th February 2009
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There's some scary photos of Ulf's fire on his website http://www.rapptimeracing.se/meca.htm



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