burning Porsche pits WSC Hockenheim 85

Porsche pit starts burning while doing a driver change on the #2 car from Hans Joachim Stuck to Derek Bell.
It was caused by a fan carelessly throwing away a cigarette in the pits.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• group
• wsc
• 85
• burning
• porsche
• pit
• pits
• hockenheim
• 1985
• Porsche
• 962

[cevert4ever]

What a Idiot! He's almost kill anybody! >_>'

[BMWizardofOz]

there are always idiots everywhere.

I have once seen a "fan" carelessly stepping on a frontwing of a 70s formula 1 car, when the pits where open.

[ferrarichy]

That's Group C not WSC. Hans Stuck was bald then! Haha

[BMWizardofOz]

WSC stands for World Sportscar Champioship. It´s the series in which one class introduced in 1982 was the Group C, which stands for consumption. In 85 there where 4 classes in WSC (C1,C2,B,GTX)

It´s like today where the series is LMS, and the classes are LMP1, LMP2, GT1 and GT2

[motorsportnutter4eva]

He turned off those air supply canisters because they force the fuel through the pipe into the car at pitstops‚ if he hadn't...well doesn't really bear thinking about.

[sir945]

the worst injured of all was the rothmans porsche team director nobert singer his burns put him in the hospital for one week

[racguy1183]

what exactly does air do for the fuel tanks? Also, how would it cause the tanks to explode? In any case, thank god for that pit crewman

[soulwaxer]

WSC

WORLD SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP

doh

[motorsportnutter4eva]

It's a good job that pitcrew member was a quick thinker and turned off the air supply to the fuel tanks, otherwise there would've been an almighty explosion which would've had tragic consequences.

[darkwizard22]

hence another reason to stop smoking