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During the final round of the Stick Shift class at I-29 No Prep in 2017, the Unicorn C5 Corvette — finally dialed in after a round of suspension and tire changes — caught fire mid-pass when a loose injector o-ring sprayed fuel onto the engine bay. A competing Subaru driver’s fast thinking with a fire extinguisher kept real damage to a minimum, and 1320video walks through exactly what went wrong and why. The car lived to race another day. Watch to see how close it came to not.

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