Seeing a vehicle go up in flames never fails to garner attention. It’s certainly disheartening when the car is something special like a Mustang Shelby GT350, though technically speaking we never see flames in this video. That is, we don’t see direct flames – at the 1:20 mark of this lengthy video from Adam LZ we see a reflection of flames in a cell phone attached to the car’s windshield, which prompted the driver to quickly exit the track. From that point forward the Shelby puts on a smoke show, but it’s not the fun kind that leads to gratuitous tire destruction.
Posted to YouTube on May 13, this video chronicles the premature destruction of Adam’s 2017 Mustang Shelby GT350, and the minor failure that led to the fire. Professional racing driver Collete Davis was at the wheel, turning laps at Florida International Rally & Motorsport Park when things went wrong on her fourth lap. She describes a big bang followed by white smoke after…
