No, I don’t. I am guessing it is all night but I don’t know. I’m learning, too.
Team’s hopes go up in flames
‘BIG BALL OF FIRE’: Gas splatters hot muffler while filling the tank and ignites.
The brutal 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race where racers annually endure bone-chilling temperatures faced a new peril Sunday afternoon — fire.
A little after 2 p.m., the duo of veteran drivers Tyson Johnson of Eagle River and Tyler Aklestad of Palmer pulled into the Puntilla Lake checkpoint at Rainy Pass, about 130 miles into the race.
The team fueled up from one of the 13 fuel drums lined up at the checkpoint high in the Alaska Range. Aklestad was filling his Ski-Doo and turned to take a drink, handing over duties to a volunteer, when the tank filled and overflowed. Gas spewing out was swiftly ignited by a scorching muffler.
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/02/21/1714622/familiar-faces-out-in-front-in.html#ixzz1EfvgwZVc