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Old 03-23-2016, 03:10 PM
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The first thoughts I heard right after it happened were of a suspension failure that compromised a fuel line. I haven't talked to anyone close to the situation since he's come home and the team has had time to diagnose though. I'll see if I can find out any updates.

From what I understand, there was so much damage from the fire that it might be hard to tell exactly what happened. It started on fire while traveling down a long fast straightaway though, and it was a fuel fire inside the cockpit.

Ron Sutton may be able to chime in but I think the fire suppression systems run out of material fairly quickly and the thought behind it not doing much good at this point is because the car was so involved by that point. If a fuel pump was pumping fuel on the fire, literally...not many fire systems are going to be able to put that fire out. The old mechanical fuel pump on my car doesn't' seem like such a bad idea anymore now that I think about this.
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