Fortunately, everything ended without too serious damage... Here is the same car, 3 days and 1000km later, at the end of the race Le Tour Auto 2016, on le Castellet track parking.
Well, it seems not so uncommon, one other of the 3 GT40s involved in this one week race has got some smoke under its rear clip too...:stunned: Burned oil more probably, as it was some quite greasy black dust.
And again, have a look on the hood of this 289 cobra in the same race, some serious heat that cooked the paint to the bare metal, just above the air cleaner !
Damn lot of people standing around taking pictures and not helping extinguish that fire.
That was my 1st thought too...until it dawned on me they'd need to have their own fire extinguishers 'in hand' to do that:
And that's hard to do with champagne whilst picking at the cheese plate.
That's pretty good lolAnd that's hard to do with champagne whilst picking at the cheese plate.
That's pretty good lol
Oh there's a fire over there! Ah whatever Bon Appétit!
I zoomed in on the 2nd photo and it looks like a fire system pull knob by the fuel pump. In that shot there is some fire extinguisher material sprayed onto the engine bay but the fire is not yet out. Wonder if it was from the handheld extinguisher the driver has or from the car mounted system? I have 2 nozzles pointed right at my webers just in case something like this occurs. This kind of makes me wonder if that is enough.