Five Of The Wildest NASCAR Fires From This Decade

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Feb 27, 2012; Daytona Beach, FL, USA; A jet drier catches fire after NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Juan Pablo Montoya (42) lost control of his car an collided in turn three during the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Douglas Jones-US PRESSWIRE /

Blown engines and wrecks cause fires regularly in NASCAR races, but occasional off-track fires are the real eye-catchers.

When a sport is powered by 40 cars burning flammable liquids within combustion chambers for hours on end, fire may escape from time to time. In NASCAR, any hope of containing such a volatile mixture inside a cylinder is wishful thinking.

NASCAR fires can be freaky, ferocious and on rare occasion funny, but one thing is for sure — when they take place outside of the context of a blown engine or cars wrecking on track, they grab our attention.

Here are a few oddities from this decade:

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