It’s a bad enough day when your track-only special car decides to commit suicide by conflagration in a spectacular show on the racecourse. Anthony Fournier is the unlucky owner of this Lotus-shaped briquet, which was formerly a 2-Eleven race car. What caused the fire during the second heat race, nobody is quite sure of, but Fournier managed to get the car stopped in front of a flag marshall’s post at the Circuit Paul Ricard in France, where fire extinguishers and track crew were ready. Unfortunately, in his haste to escape the car before his hide became crispier than a pork cracklin’, Fournier made one serious error: the handbrake was not set as he hastily got out of the burning car. As the track crews made sure that Fournier was alright, the 2-Eleven started to roll back out onto the track, prompting an immediate red flag to be thrown and officials deciding to end the race then and there, presumably to let the other drivers go back to the pits while the crews scraped up what was left of a Lotus onto a flatbed.
(Courtesy: CarThrottle)
The Devil drives a Lotus!