Daniel Suarez catches fire at daytona Nascar Cup series

and that's track House's Daniel Suarez standing on the wrong side of the pit wall because it was a pretty scary moment in his Coca-Cola zero Chevrolet take a look at this this is the 99 returning to Pit Road after his original pit stop and the car erupts into flames on his pit stop there was some fire during the pit stop but we have seen that before where a spark will catch a little bit of excess fuel on fire but this is much more severe than that I don't know if fuel got spilled into the trunk area and it caught on fire but as he got closer and closer to Pit Road you see just how the severe the Fire gets Daniel waited to be told to get out Jeff I would be instantly out of the car Marty yeah Steve I think right now there's more questions and answers a lot of people are saying what exactly happened I had asked Matt swerski the crew chief do you know what happened and he just kind of threw up his hands as if he did not know what happened Daniel did get out of the car you saw that a moment ago he came behind the pit box sat down for a few moments and now he is up there talking to the team I think everybody's just trying to figure out exactly how that happened but I've never Steve seen a car this disintegrated here on Pit Road I mean completely burned up on the back end of this Coca-Cola machine yeah there's a lot of questions from the team I guarantee there's going to be a lot of questions from Nascar you see the melted parts and pieces of the car the entire tail panel completely melted off the official looking in the trunk now probably confirming everything is connected appropriately Daniel what were you feeling inside the car I've never seen anything like that this the first time as well for me man I I it was a very weird feeling because I don't I don't run a rear VI mirror anymore I only run my rear view camera and the camera is mounted in the rear bumper I can feel a heat in my back but I cannot see it so I was trying to go fast to turn it to to try to calb down the fire but by the time I got here I can feel a lot of heat and I when I get stop I can feel a lot of I can I can see the fire here so very uh very unfortunate honestly after seeing the replay I don't know why we could have done better I mean we every single time that we P we Dro a little bit of fuel it was just a bad situation there between the 11 and the 21 I couldn't move and the the fire just CAU in the fuel and and I was right there and he C in my my in the back of my car where the fuel cell is and we just a yeah just glad to see that Daniel is okay they are indeed done for the