Rice blown motor

[obamaracing#1]

That was crazy!!! I don’t remember if I've ever seen anything like that in all my years of watching late model racing. Have you ever seen a motor let go and smoke that bad? Scary how the throttle was stuck open in the pits. So bizzare

[TerryM]

I have definitely never seen anything like that before.

[Josh Bayko]

That really was wild.

[NeedforLM$peed]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ColePerkins12/status/1402793183843651585

[84wedge]

that was scary. I thought it was gonna explode with all those people standing around. Did they put it out by dumping water right down the carb?

[c1ty5tar]

that was scary. I thought it was gonna explode with all those people standing around. Did they put it out by dumping water right down the carb?

Extinguishers displacing the oxygen.

[Jed]

Reminds me of a diesel runaway. Sure don’t understand how a gas engine would do it and why it couldn’t have been shut down.

[Shiny Side Up 18]

Didn't that happen to Derek Chandler way back when?

[weatherman85]

Crazy scene for sure. Believe this is what was happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieseling

[NeedforLM$peed]

Crazy scene for sure. Believe this is what was happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieseling

I believe that's what my dad's boat would do that at times. You had to remember to put it in neutral and give it slight throttle when turning it off and it wouldn't do that.

[Highside Hustler25]

One would think their would be a accessible fuel shutoff.

[zyoung25]

I'm sure it was hard for the folks to not panic in that situation, all they needed was a rag over the carb to smother it out. It was running on fumes and dieseling.

[Stefan2k20]

One would think their would be a accessible fuel shutoff.

Could be that the engine was running off the oil. That would explain all the smoke.

[ZERO25]

I thought his on board fire extinguisher had went off by itself!

[backspace]

Motor was extremely hot,,even though the power was shut off,it ran like a diesel,,,it was firing from compression