This happened on the Avenue at Oulton Park going down towards cascades.

Eighteen extinguishers were used.

The driver went to hospital with minor burns to hands and face.

Video Footage

This is Marshalling at it's very best......there was no panic and there were a couple of "First Day" Marshals in attendance at this incident.

The first Fire truck came WD and was on scene 35 secs from the moment the fire started.

Good drills from the OP marshals there. Glad the driver suffered only minor injuries, as during the rolls the flames were within the cage.

You can't see from the video, but the drivers legs were alight when he exited the car!
You will see a Marshal aiming his extinguisher at the driver though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6IZUzxRKUc

a photo montage video.

Top work by the guys and girls in Orange at Oulton Park!

Wow, good job guys! <clap>

Glad the driver wasn't seriously hurt <thumbsup>

Indeed, some frankly terrifying images from that.

http://www.crash.net/picture~cid~0~id~161095~f~~pid~1.htm

That was some seriously great work!!!

Very good work from the marshals there, especially as that's a strange place for a car to have a serious crash like that.

Looks like the bloke in the black tea-cosy needed a change of underwear.....

<roflmao>

Excellent work from the three marshals who were first on scene.

However (and I am not decrying any of the work done by anyone here) there did appear to be an excessive amount of other marshals hanging around doing nothing (some of them actually looked to be getting in the way). Where did they all come from? And more importantly why were they there? Surely they hadn't all come from adjacent posts?

Also, I am concerned at the number of bottles used to put out the fire, especially as the fire tenders were in attendance. When Shane Bland had his accident in the Marcos at Donington back in 2001, there was no fire tender called and only 8 bottles were used to extinguish a far larger fire, and with Shane still in the car, unconscious with a broken neck.

Well done to all those involved <clap> , will try and get something on Marshalling-bears about it as it shows what can happen.

I think the thing with fires like this is that the fuel tank looks to have split and due to the way the car had rolled and got crushed there were a lot of little places for fuel to settle and re-ignight. The Shane Bland crash was obviously huge but was straight on so not to similar to this one.

I find it disturbing that the fuel tank ruptured in the first place. Have they never heard of bladdered cells?

The G50 runs an FIA approved fuel cell (G50 Specs). This just shows how heavy the crash was.

Or maybe it says something about the construction or regulations? I don't know what the regs say about approval requirements for the cell itself, but I assume from the footage that the tank is at the back of the car. It appears the the initial impact with the barrier was more or less head on, and then the car rolled repeatedly. I would guess that something pierced the tank during these rolls, considering the amount of debris, rather than a problem with the tank failing of it's own accord. Of course, if the tank really did fail on it's own then I'd suggest there's an issue with it....

The tank itself didn't rupture, it was the filler pipe coming off which caused the fuel spill. if you look at the videos/photos you can see the fuel splashing from one of the pipes at the back

Haven't they heard of shut-off valves then?

Has this been confirmed or is this just a guess based on the pictures?
Either way I think one of the problems was that as it went the wrong side of the barrier it had large wooden posts to hit as well, this only added to the danger of splitting the tank.
A few pictures below (not mine just found them)

Having just posted that picture you can see how hard the hits were, just have a look at the roll cage on the left hand side, its taken a big enough hit to bend it (picture 2).

Wow! Thanks for those pics brickkicker. That first one especially is an amazing piece of photography, and as you said, the second really does demonstrate the impact of the crash. Glad that the driver injuries were so minor.

There are two others from the sequence

Also looking at the pictures you can see that some of the fluid is from the radiator and the tyre wall. But the fact he walked away from such a heavy shunt is a testament to the designers and engineers that built it. But nothing can be taken away from the superb job that the marshals did, some with limited experiance on the bank.

I heard today that Granada News (UK Northwest TV Channel) were at Oulton Park to talk to the Marshals concerned for a news item.
Also BBC Radio may be doing a piece as well.

I know that this is what we train for, but if it gives us a chance to "Promote" our Club, then it can't be a bad thing.

The MSV website also carried an interview with one of the first Marshals on scene and I believe there were photo's in several national tabloids.