VtVette wrote:
Cool pics!

A co-worker of mine was damn close to going to work at Pratt & Miller at one point but, decided not to. Too damn cold in Michigan!

Their cars are very well prepared. Some of the nicest of the series by far.

Tommy T-Bone: LOL

LG Motorsports;
Hi guys.

boris was wearing his own suit from when he and Dale Jr drove together at Infineon-----where Dale Jr crashed and CAUGHT ON FIRE.

I guess the suit was jealous and felt left out.

The cause of the fire was from the hit with the BMW that bent the exhaust pipe and directed the hot exhaust toward the carbon fiber rocker panel and started it on fire. That only got bigger and it burned a high pressure fuel line that burst and caused what you all saw.

Boris is burned on his arms and eyes. Time will heal them but he will have a few weeks in pain and I am sorry for that.

Luckily he ran the car into the run off area where corner workers were standing right there and they stopped the fire quickly which limited the damage but it is still severe and probably out of reach for us in the near future to repair.

We could use a "Bailout" :D

Thanks

LG

Keith@VetteFinders;
With about 5 minutes remaining in the race at Long Beach, the LG Motorsports #28 Corvette catches fire. Driver Boris Said was able to bail and is okay. The fire was believed to be caused following contact with one of the BMW M3 that spun out both cars.

Video here:
http://www.corvetteblogger.com/index. ... atches-Fire-at-Long-Beach

bogus wrote:
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VtVette wrote:
Cool pics!

A co-worker of mine was damn close to going to work at Pratt & Miller at one point but, decided not to. Too damn cold in Michigan!

Their cars are very well prepared. Some of the nicest of the series by far.

Tommy T-Bone: LOL

uh, wait a second... your friend... I assume he lives in Vermont, did not move to Michigan cause it is too cold.

The point would have been that he could have spent time in Sebring in Jan thru March, then LB in April... I don't get his decision making process. Very flawed.

VtVette wrote:
Thank god Boris got out of the car - that could have ended real bad, real quick.

TLGunman;
ESPN has a picture of Boris:
[url]http://proxy.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=smith_marty&page=DoorToDoor[/url]

LG Motorsports;
Boris told me today that he looks like a "Super Model" now

He did have his visor up. As most of you know, the exhaust got bent and caught something in the right rear on fire, which got to a fuel hose and burst into flames.

Because the ECU will turn off the fuel pump when the engine stops running, it turned off the pump and did not have more fuel feeding it.

Lucky for sure. The corner worker pulled the fire system from the Driver's A pillar mount.

Thanks guys, and thanks for Boris.

We have the car apart already and we are sending out all the electrics and cleaning up the whole car.

It is not pretty but it will give us an opportunity to rebuild the car better than when we got it. It was never really finished and has always been over weight so we will work hard at fixing the problems at the same time we rebuild it.

This is a first for me in over 35 years. We have to find something good in here somewhere.

LG