Chris Hughes crashed his Yamaha FZ750 during a March, 1986 WERA race at Roebling Road and the bike caught fire. Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, the bike burned out of control as extinguisher after extinguisher was exhausted. I don’t recall how the fire was finally put out. I remember at one point Hughes started digging into the sandy earth and throwing dirt on the fire to try to stop it. I don’t have a full series of photos because I abandoned shooting to try to help put out the fire.
All photos by Larry Lawrence (Click on photo for larger version).
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I would have to guess that some of the magnesium pars had caught fire. At that point I think Halon is the only thing that will work. I seem to remember hearing about several GSXRs that has the same problem, resulting in racetracks adding a Halon extinguisher at each corner.
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Ah, thanks for that explaination Ed.
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