Five Of The Wildest NASCAR Fires From This Decade
By Nick Livers
February 2014: Pace Car Fire
Coming up to the final 20-lap segment of the Sprint Unlimited, the Brett Bodine-piloted pace car began smoking and went up in flames. In a bizarre turn of events, the ever-present caution car had produced a caution of its own. Bodine took no chances in driving it to the pits.
Later reports showed that the trunk of the Chevy SS caught fire. Chevrolet claimed the blaze was caused by a battery pack used to power a purpose-built auxiliary electrical kit to operate the numerous caution lights during the race.
Naturally, this probably came as a relief to the auto maker, who didn’t need any new recalls advertised on national television.