Tyre Bursts Into Flames

Tyre overheats and bursts into flames during a burnout comp

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• burnout
• tyre
• tire
• fire
• rubber
• smoke
• car
• burning
• breakmyface
• smokeshow
• v8
• flame
• flames
• bursts
• comp
• overheat
• overheats

[madalinradion]

From 1:00 to 1:03 you can see the STIG from TopGear

[20stands]

Whats happening is the smoke from the tires is a fuel source and the oxygen is from the surrounding air. This will create a stoichiometric mixture that will ignite and burn. The ignition source is the flames from the exhaust of the car running a bit rich and constantly cycling the throttle. Listen when he lets off the gas,then the exhaust will make a flame, the fire starts, the tires are now burning the preheated particulate rubber from the tire, consumes all available fuel sources, fire is out.

[turkeyguy0]

@20stands good advice, i'll try it

[20stands]

@turkeyguy0 Try reading some manuals on engineering. If you don't know a word just find out what it means and start using it with everyday life. I started two words a week then three words. I topped out at four a week. After a while you can use them in a timeline type sentences like I did then you will have a extended vocabulary.

[turkeyguy0]

@20stands right on, thats the path i want to take in life too, but i only understand whats happening with things, i can't explain it with words as well as i'd like to.

[20stands]

@turkeyguy0 Thank you, I am a engineer so being clear and precise is a big part of my job. Of course you have some someone like Kyler2013 how has some idea he made in his head of spraying gasoline onto tires and trying to defend it, like the comments above. So enjoy the comments as I pick him apart, this is also part of my job(I have to have other engineers defend there own ideas too). lol

[20stands]

@Kyler2013 Well I am a engineer for a aircraft goverment contractor. We specialize in ceramics, liquids, composites, and refined chemicals(such as what tires are made of). Your sure about that? Flame propagation is suject to dillusion of nearby fuel sources and a vapor will burn with quite a but of force thus dynamic expansion. After ignition will flame out very quickly because it expands so quickly that it will push away all avaible o2. In the video the flame still burns a while after ignition.

[Kyler2013]

@20stands Hey dude, that's why high powered cars don't have gas tanks, they have fuel cells, which are located in the car most of the time, not under it. And since gasoline (including the vapor which you neglected to mention) is flammable, it would light tires if they were hot enough. Look it up, I've been doing this race/stunt car shit for a LONG time my friend.

[20stands]

@Kyler2013 I don't think so! If I put the time, work, and money into building car like this one in the video, the last thing I would do is spray baulk liquid fuel onto my tires, near my gas tank and light it on fire! I can tell you the fuel source is the particulated rubber not gasoline. Why do I think that you ask? Smoke(tire smoke) by definition is a unburned fuel in a dence particulate form, that is visible to the naked eye. Gasoline(a oil) would lubricate the tires so they wouldn't smoke!.

[XxSpeed11xXJC]

@customnotmodded no its also known as Tyre its Latin ... English turned it into tire ... just like color its know as colour in some places

[MrAceBarber1994]

eye kan cpel toe...lol

[turkeyguy0]

@20stands dude you analyzed the shit out of what happened. wish i could put things into words the way you just did.