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Safety workers try to extinguish a fire from a jet dryer after being hit by Juan Pablo Montoya, driver of the #42 under caution on Monday night at Daytona 500.
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Juan Pablo Montoya, of Colombia, walks from his car after it collided with a track-drying truck on Monday night at Daytona.
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A jet dryer bursts into flames after being hit by Juan Pablo Montoya on Monday night at Daytona.
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Emergency workers put out a fire on a jet dryer during the Daytona 500.
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Race leader Dave Blaney, second from left, talks with Landon Cassill, left, as other drivers gather during a red flag on Monday night.
AP reports: The Daytona 500 has been halted by a fiery explosion caused when Juan Pablo Montoya slammed into a jet drier under caution. Montoya was driving well behind the rest of the field when something on his car broke and he started sliding out of control toward the jet drier, which holds 200 gallons of jet kerosene.
Montoya's No. 42 Chevrolet hammered the truck, setting off an explosion and sending fuel pouring onto the famed track. Montoya got out unharmed. The driver of the jet drier had to be helped out of his truck.
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and why do we have 200 gallons of "jet kerosene" on an active race track?
Nascar people, please clue me in as there must be a darn good reason.
To power the jet dryer, idiot. Read the article, the race was under caution.
Rob-3829825, A Nascar fan calling ANYONE else an idiot, that's pretty delusional. IDIOT!
Now kids,
If I have to turn this car around...
Ohhh...I don't know....(Maybe to run the JET engine that is drying the track) might be my first guess....maybe it is just for fun...I wouldn't be able to make an educated guess to your otherwise well thought out question...This is why NASCAR and trailer parks are linked together for most party jokes...THINK before you speak...
This one day delay really screwed up some drivers heads.
Just stupid wrecks tonight.
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To dry the track off.
for the barbque after the race?
Just glad no one was injured. Absolutely amazing..... is this race jinxed ????
Clean off the track so Jr. can win !!!!
who is J R
He was in a TV series a long time ago called Dallas. I think he got shot or something.
they can't take a time out to go refuel...still, 200 gallons is a lot of fuel.
2/3 of what my truck holds, the same amount my truck burns per day or $844.00
It was an unscheduled driver roast, after all it is NASCAR.
They were under caution and the truck was blowing debris off the track. Montoya was trying to catch up to the back of the field and something broke on his car. His car spun out of control and crashed into the back of the jet dryer truck. The jet dryer truck was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Everyone is ok from what I hear.
You must be a lawyer...Ken...The truck was in the wrong place at the wrong time...are you kidding me??? the race car driver lost control...even if something broke...he lost control and caused the wreck...PERIOD....stop putting the blame anywhere but where it should be
i thinks that this was done to give the "look its a an explosion/crash" crowd something to see. The whole "accident" looks a bit suspicious....
To paraphrase an earlier post, are you an idiot or what???
Special breed of idiot. The "Totally-unsubstantiated-conspiracies-are-everywhere-and-I-am-the-only-idiot-who-knows-it".
keep watching guys Mt.Dew and the other sponsors need you!
Dear NASCAR,
I am just sick about the coverage of the Daytona 500. What the hell was with all the dam commercials??
YOUR RACE FANS waited all weekend for the weather to clear, then took off work to watch the race scheduled for this morning, then waited until this evening to finally watch the race. And what did we get? Inundated with 5 minutes of racing followed by 3 MINUTES OF COMMERCIALS throughout the ENTIRE RACE??
Are you kidding me?? MORE THAN HALF THE RACE WAS COMMERCIALS!! The most coverage we saw was after Montoya hit the crew truck. Prior to that....every 5 minutes of racing was followed by 3 minutes of commercials. You people suck!! If advertising is going to superseded racing....OMG...you people can go to hell!!
Yeah! You tell 'em Bypolar !
They don't want commercials. It interrupts the action of watchin' cars drive in a circle...
After >1,000,000 times, the same inane remark is still idiotic. You probably watch basketball---thump, thump, squeak, squeak, whistle, stop.
@ Lokay and Spike. And the same insane idiots reply to my posts.....like you!!
Everything is staged in these races..they even know the winner before the race starts if that car can last..then its next in line the winner. Its like horse racing..all fixed.
They needed some type of excitement for the Monday night primetime TV viewers to stay awake..and not get bored watching it and fall asleep.
Be over about two hours before your alarm goes off to get to work (east coast)! Just 5-6 more yellow flags to go.
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What? Mike, don't you find it exciting watching rednecks drive cars around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and aroundaround and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around? Doncha?
Actually, I like COPS. Especially the after pursuit interviews with the blacknecks:
Cop---Why did you run?
Blackneck---Why yuz be stoppin' me? Ah dint do nuffin!
Actually, when I watch "Cops" it seems to me that the fleeing suspect is, more often than not, some skinny, shirtless, tattoo covered, meth-addicted, trailer-park-dwelling white boy named Bubba, or Cletus, who thinks he can drive like his favorite NASCAR driver, so he runs because he has priors, but crashes because he never learned to make right turns.
Must not watch much. Except through rose-colored glasses. 70% of crime made by 12% of the population. DOJ stats.
Hey Lokay...must be dark where you live!
Actually, it's quite bright where I live. Apparently, from your posts, it's not very bright where you live.
Get a life!!!!!!!
he who sets at the computer on a chat sight they hate.
What is it about NASCAR that everything besides the race is what is interesting.........wrecks, commentary, controversy, women drivers, weather........wake me when there are 10 laps to go
turn left, turn left, turn left, wreck......caution......startover
Basketball fan? Thump, thump, squeak, squeak, whistle, stop.
at 200 gallons, the jet engines must suck it up, but think about it...... if it only got 1 mile to a gallon......it could go half the race........overkill?
anyone know what the fuel consumption is for the jet engine?
200 gallons at 1 mile to the gallon wouldn't be half the race. Half the race is 250 miles (250 gallons then).
So Williams, you're assuming they run the jet dryer 500 miles? Did it have to qualify first?
( roll eyes)
I like that Danica Patrick she is good, three crashes in three days! Hope she makes it home ok.
Is that a women driver comment???
Nah...
i just love watching this sh*'t to see who kills them selves and then they think their a hero, last laughs
Wow - bad luck with Daytona 500 this year!
NASCAR is damn lucky that nobody was injured or killed in this accident.
That said, am I the only one that thinks it was INSANE to allow a truck carrying 200 gallons of jet fuel to drive around the track without imposing a speed/position restriction on ALL the other cars on the track?
It's comical to think that JPM was permitted to approach the truck at a higher relative speed. Were they TRYING to cause an accident?
Do you read? It said they were under a caution flag. Now Im not a NASCAR fan,but I DO know what that means. It means exactly the kind of speed/position restriction your talking about. The article was very clear what happened. A vehicle had a mechanical failure,and the driver lost control. Stuff happens. No one was hurt,which is lucky. The thing take away from this is that the truck should be equipped with safety equipment like a race car and the driver should be in a fire retardant suit if hes not already,because,sometimes things go sideways.
Did the track ever get dry???
I believe beer is still legal at the track...
I've never understood NASCAR, never will. It boggles my mind when Formula 1 and WRC drivers say they're interested in driving in a circle. Only reason I know this accident even happened is because a friend mentioned it to me.
I mean, if you wanted to see what happened here at the Daytona500, you're better off just watching the first 10 minutes of Final Destination 4.