A bad day at the race track many years ago

My bad day was a bad night. It was night time test and tune at Irwindale raceway in 1977. I was sitting in the staging lanes when a guy on an older Harley with extended forks was returning from his latest run. He split the lane of cars next me on the right. He was standing on the brake trying to get the bike to stop. He left the lanes and ran into the chain link fence that was on the other side of the lanes used to get to the staging area. The fence slid up the front wheel and forks and wiped him off of the bike. He was tangled up under the fence while his bike fell over on the other side with the throttle stuck wide open!
Just after we extracted him from being pinned and gouged by the fence, three Fordboys two lanes over from me had their hood up on their Mustang with the motor running. One guy said that he could smell it but that he couldn’t see it. A second guy said that he could see it dripping under the car. The third guy said that he could find it and flicked his lighter. He instantly found the fuel leak as the entire engine compartment erupted into a ball of fire! They started shouting for help because they didn’t have a fire extinguisher. There was pandemonium for a couple of minutes as guys were trying to clear their cars from the burning Mustang. Finally someone showed up with a fire extinguisher and put it out.
I just laughed in amazement at what I just witnessed. I didn’t laugh too long because on my very next pass a freeze plug popped out and I proceeded to dump water down the entire track!