Dani deaf Y his copilotor Candido Carrera they suffered a big scare at rally in japan. During the second stage, his car suffered a fire that devoured the vehiclewhich has caused both Spaniards to say goodbye to their adventure in Japanese territory.
According to the Spanish pilot, started to smell gasoline and saw fire break out between the seats. It was then that he stopped the car and with fire extinguishers both he and his co-pilot tried to put out the fire, but the power of the fire was so great that despite emptying the fire extinguishers the flames spread.
Sordo also explains that he already warned of that smell of gasoline in the car: “I already informed my team since morning that the car smelled a lot like fuel“.
“Unfortunately we are forced to abandon after a fire in our car. Thanks for the cheering. Watching your car burn and not being able to do anything is a pain that cannot be described. Very sad,” he said. dani deaf through his Instagram account.
“I have never seen anything like this. Yesterday there was already a lot of smoke and I even cried a little within. It really was like gasoline, like fuel. Then it was more and at one point we saw the fire inside the car. When we braked in the corner we only saw smoke coming in from the front and it all happened very quickly. The car was completely smoking, so I just put on the parking brake and I tried to put out the fire“
Despite asking the car behind for help, it was no use: “It was a small fire in the back. I tried to put it out, but under the battery or somewhere it was already bigger, and I couldn’t stop it with the little fire extinguisher. I asked the next car for the fire extinguisher, but when you start to have fire it is very difficult to stop it“.
“I tried my best to stop him, but it was impossible. I feel very sorry for the team for losing the car”, he adds. Both Dani Sordo and his co-driver left unharmed of the incident.
“I could never imagine that the car would catch fire completely. And when it started from the back, even when I tried to open the door, it was impossible to get in, there was so much hot smoke that we couldn’t do anything. Only I picked up my phone and nothing else“, he concludes.