Re: [MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

That's on my retirement bucket list, campaign some kind of car in some kind
of casual race series.  I love the whole concept of Lemons.

-
Max
Charleston SC

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Karl Wittnebel 
wrote:

> No time now but I am so pleased for them. Seriously talented drivers, all
> meeting seven years of saturdays working on their 87 325i coupe with many
> events and prior race wins, but this is their first regional chumpionship
> victory. Two eight hour races at road america over two days. They caned the
> field in the wet conditions and won class c and overall by nine laps I
> think. They did not open the hood or the toolbox once during the whole
> weekend. There were lots of cars there with owners flying drivers in etc.
> And professional motorsports teams from LMP etc. Parker comes to mind,
> fielded a camaro.
>
> Anyway, the level of competition at the pointy end of chumpcar is very
> high. 95% race on reliability. The top 5% race on speed. Lots of industry
> professionals putting teams of guys together. Takes a massive effort on car
> prep, race management and driving skill to pull off a win like that.
>
> On Oct 24, 2017 5:01 AM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> Tell us more please!
>>
>> -
>> Max
>> Charleston SC
>>
>>
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes]

No time now but I am so pleased for them. Seriously talented drivers, all
meeting seven years of saturdays working on their 87 325i coupe with many
events and prior race wins, but this is their first regional chumpionship
victory. Two eight hour races at road america over two days. They caned the
field in the wet conditions and won class c and overall by nine laps I
think. They did not open the hood or the toolbox once during the whole
weekend. There were lots of cars there with owners flying drivers in etc.
And professional motorsports teams from LMP etc. Parker comes to mind,
fielded a camaro.

Anyway, the level of competition at the pointy end of chumpcar is very
high. 95% race on reliability. The top 5% race on speed. Lots of industry
professionals putting teams of guys together. Takes a massive effort on car
prep, race management and driving skill to pull off a win like that.

On Oct 24, 2017 5:01 AM, "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" 
wrote:

> Tell us more please!
>
> -
> Max
> Charleston SC
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > My cousin just won the central region chumpionship yesterday. Need to get
> > into that. Would run a 124 but I expect it is too heavy. And complicated.
> >
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[Meade Dillon via Mercedes]

Tell us more please!

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Max
Charleston SC

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

>
> My cousin just won the central region chumpionship yesterday. Need to get
> into that. Would run a 124 but I expect it is too heavy. And complicated.
>
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes]

Drove an x the other day. Over 5000lb and 4 sec 0-60. It is like driving
around in 1st gear with the regen on; slows you right down to 5mph when you
let off the accelerator. Except 1st gear gets you to 155mph. They say they
have serviced cars with 300k miles on original brakes, because people never
use them.

There is no oil in the car, period. You service it annually, to grease the
moving bits.

The autopilot stuff doesn't work in town, eg for pedestrians, but auto
emergency braking does for cars, objects etc.

Some dude stole one and hit a pole at 100mph a few years ago in hollywood;
that car burned also. Or half of it did.

My sister's pontiac t6000 caught on fire on the i90 when she was coming to
my high school graduation. She still has the puddle of aluminum that was
the bumper. They had enough time to get out, pop the hood, look under there
and see some smoke, and by that time it was almost too hot to stand next to
the car. She grabbed her wallet and camera off the dash, and her friend
managed to get the bikes off the roof, but they lost everything else in the
vehicle as it roasted itself to a burned out hulk on the shoulder out by
Wall Drug. Some trucker tried an extinguisher. No chance. Made the local
paper.

Anyway I'm not thinking a tesla is any more burnable than the rest of the
iron rolling around out there. When a car goes up, it is the interior and
rubber that really make the fire. If they could stand next to it long
enough to get the jaws of life out and use them, then Tesla is doing
something very right. I do think a big manual disconnect would be a good
idea, though, just like a regular track car has.

My cousin just won the central region chumpionship yesterday. Need to get
into that. Would run a 124 but I expect it is too heavy. And complicated.





On Oct 22, 2017 6:00 PM, "OK Don via Mercedes" 
wrote:

> FYI - how fun - hope I don't get trapped in one of these:
>
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heres-what-
> firefighters-do-to-extinguish-a-battery-fire-on-a-tesla-
> model-s/ar-AAtHVle?li=BBnb7Kz
>
> --
> OK Don
>
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> our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain
>
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> learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
> for themselves."
>
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> 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
> 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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Re: [MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[Curley McLain via Mercedes]

It takes an MB feurwehr to save a few pieces of the Tesla POS for salvage.


OK Don via Mercedes 
October 22, 2017 at 8:00 PM
FYI - how fun - hope I don't get trapped in one of these:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heres-what-firefighters-do-to-extinguish-a-battery-fire-on-a-tesla-model-s/ar-AAtHVle?li=BBnb7Kz



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[MBZ] OT: Extinguishing a Tesla bettery fire

[OK Don via Mercedes]

FYI - how fun - hope I don't get trapped in one of these:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/heres-what-firefighters-do-to-extinguish-a-battery-fire-on-a-tesla-model-s/ar-AAtHVle?li=BBnb7Kz

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our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain

"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."

WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
2013 F150, 18 mpg
2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg
1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph!
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