From the old-news-that-I-missed dept.: I recently read that the fuel tank burst during Ryan Briscoe's wicked crash at Chicagoland. The rescue people were at first thwarted from getting to him immediately because of the heat coming from the piece of the car that he was still in. I found this remarkable because, if true, we still haven't used all the fingers on one hand to count the times a Goodyear (I assume) Indycar/champcar fuel cell has failed to remain intact in the last three decades. I always an image that if the Russkies sent the Big One, the only thing in America not reduced to atom particles would be these tanks, still holding their methanol.
Is Goodyear still the supplier of these tanks? And, despite the savage impact of the Briscoe crash, has this got anyone's attention? Just wonderin'.

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