• James Deane’s Mustang caught fireplace throughout a media day late final week.
  • The blaze destroyed the automobile’s highly effective V8 and charred a lot of the engine bay.
  • Deane’s staff rebuilt the automobile and he went on to win final weekend’s System Drift occasion in Lengthy Seashore.

Drifting is a harmful enterprise and one of many world’s most achieved drifters, Eire’s James Deane, found this whereas driving his Ford Mustang RTR on the System Drift occasion over the weekend.

The on-track motion began with media day the place members of the press had the chance to leap into the passenger seat of a few of the vehicles on the System Drift grid. Deane took out a couple of media members in the course of the day however issues went improper when YouTuber and fellow drifter Kevin Darwish went for a experience alongside.

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Footage from inside and outdoors the Mustang reveals that whereas Deane was mid-drift, flames erupted out of the Mustang’s engine bay. He shortly slammed on the brakes and each he and his passenger jumped out earlier than the flames grew.

Deane says that the fireplace burned the road used for the nitrous system and that it was taking pictures nitrous immediately on the fireplace. Whereas security crews had been capable of douse the flames, they couldn’t achieve this shortly sufficient. All the engine bay was destroyed by the flames and far of the engine was melted. It doesn’t make for a reasonably sight and each Deane and his staff had been compelled to take the automobile again to the store to attempt to restore it.

Amazingly, the staff was capable of rebuild the automobile for the weekend. Deane thanked them in one of the best ways attainable, successful the drifting occasion after a last battle showdown with Simen Olsen.

The RTR staff isn’t positive what precipitated the fireplace as a result of a lot injury was completed to the engine bay.