Dan' de Bourgogne wrote:
Very nice set! We don't know similar races here home...hence those pictures are interesting (at least , to me!).
I wonder what happend in the last picture: there is a kind of "fire/flame" floating in the air, just beside the car, quite nearby its carrosserie...how a flame could be produced here in the air, far away from any potential fire source?
The flames are produced by the Nitro Methane fuel they burn in these engines, which makes up to 12,000 horsepower. Did you notice the heat waves behind the car? They have to rebuild these engines between every round. I have a few photos of the pit crew with the engine disassembled.