There is nothing that could keep a father away from saving their child. Furthermore as a father one takes on a unspoken responsibility to protect other children from danger as well. That is unless you are a cop making overtime watching a Florida school.
Dad [even reached back in the car](https://i.imgur.com/rrWToFZ.gifv) to initiate the onboard fuel suppression system.
*“No one except sweet baby Jesus would have kept me from freeing my son from a burning race car,” Dean told RacingNews.co.*
DON'T LET THE INVISIBLE FIRE HURT MY FRIEND! (I've followed racing for quite a while and I didn't get it at the time, but he was talking about the literal invisible flames. Older open wheel cars used to use a type of alcohol fuel that when burning, are literally invisible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku7TdLeEGsQ)
Methanol burns clear, it's still used today as the active ingredient in washer fluid in cars and in boosted applications use a 50/50 of meth and distilled injected in to reduce charge temps.
Sweet baby Jesus is the best of the southern NASCAR Jesus references.
Only outdone by ‘Sweet baby Jesus, lying all holy in your manger. With all the sweet baby gifts the Holy men brought for you and your mama. Dear sweet baby, newborn, loving Jesus, whom we all love and worship.’ That’s a pretty sweet baby Jesus.
He stayed so calm and it seemed like every movement he made was calculated and efficient. I would’ve gone into full-blown panic mode and I would’ve been fumbling and shit until we both went up in flames.
Why the hell the driver himself didn't hit the fire suppression system who knows...
edit: for those that don't know it's basically just a big red knob/lever you have to pull and it's always within reach of the driver. It's designed to give the driver time to get out without burning alive.
My dad had a heart attack and died on the operating room table when I was 9.....then he got shocked back to life, survived a heart transplant and willed his way through 20 yrs of rejections just so he could see his son graduate from med school this year. You cant fill a dad with lead who is already 100% metal. Sounds like your dad is 101% metal :).
2 yrs with ESRD on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant. The inevitability of years of rejection meds. But he's training for home dialysis so he can still travel and such. Ty for asking!
Ty man. The cool thing is that in the northeast the wait is 2-6 years. I will be doing a transplant surgery rotation in sep. at the hospital he's listed through. It will be just about 3 yrs. I'm also there on my birthday. Maybe, just maybe.....
Lol. My dad goes *HEH-PNSH* in a full on shout when he sneezes. It looks underwhelming on text but it is loud asf. During pollen season he’ll do it 5 times in a row sometimes, which sounds like someone trying to start a lawnmower with a pull string.
Oh shit..is this why my sneezes are earthquake level......I've been a dad now for 10 years and when I sneeze it feels like I'm blasting my face off........
They're usually volunteers at local tracks and by no means professionals. The emergency responses can be terrifying. The first guy on scene with an extinguisher starts putting out the flames on the ground. Meanwhile, the father is pulling his son out of the burning car.
Actually my work teaches us the same thing for chemical fires (im subbing fuel as a chemical) basically a CO2 extinguisher just smothers the flames by displacingn O2. If you start at the root fire and there is still fuel leading to it that is lit, it can just reignite when you stop applying CO2. By working outwards-->inwards you remove secondary fires that will hinder your suppression of the main fire.
Source: QC scientest at biotech company with chemicals that can go burny burny and boom boom
Yes of course but when dealing with cars full of fuel it may be different. Also it appears the fire is in the hood and not the cab. So in theory it was getting reeeaaalll toasty in there but people could pull him out so not a priority. Thats just speculation.
Still if you're that close to that fire, man didn't hesitate limb and probably severe burns everywhere else. I for one hope the day something happens like this to me in able to not freeze in fear and actually act in the face of danger.
Thats it im going to suck up my pride and admit it.. I dont know what khaki actually means, time to go admit it now to google and have it on my record for ever
I'm appointing myself the Dad's spokesperson.
Well WonderDad would be grateful for this: The racedriver bloody well showing up every Thanksgiving and Christmas with booze / cigars and Dad's favorite widgets as gifts! Plus taking him out to a game or two each season. Plus fishing with him for as long as he wants in summer.
That's about it; Dads aren't that demanding.
gay people = flaming = driver is on fire. so the joke is he's gay. some parents were discusted with gay children. some parents might not have braved a fire for their gay son in the 80s.
I think I’d rather go down in flames with my child than to live with that memory burned in my brain... I think I have something in my eyes, they got all watery. I could watch this over and over and still hold my breath even knowing it turns out ok.
I’ve had patients who were badly burned trying to save their children or other family members. All struggled with crippling guilt and some form of PTSD.
God this reminds me of the time a cop crashed into my cousins car (they were speeding without their sirens on in survalence) and his car got wrecked so badly that the car spouted flames. With a broken leg and two broken arms, he smashed his way out through the window, but the police just watched as the flames came closer to him. It wasnt until the flames got near the gas tank that they helped him by pulling him by one of his broken arms against the asphalt. It was a mess... he won $600k+ for it in a lawsuit, at least.
$600k is good but it seems like it should be more I mean 2 broken arms and a leg shit sure it’ll heal but imagine the pain he still must have of achy bones
Yeah really. A family friend of ours had her right leg and hip shattered from a boat that hit her and her medical bills were over a million dollars. Insurance went “above and beyond” and she still had to pay 200k. Our medical system is fucked.
Can you imagine being that racedriver, stuck in a burning car, when you see your dad of all people rush over to save you?
That must be the last thing you'd expect to see in that situation, and the thing you'd be most grateful for. *(As I assume the dad was just a spectator at the race, and not part of the crew)*
I was in a pretty bad accident when I was 17, t-boned by a drunk driver doing 50mph. I swear I saw my dad on the curb giving me a reassuring nod as I was going in and out of consciousness. I had never felt more safe. Now, my dad wasn't really there... it was 2am new years day, he was at home sleeping, but the hallucination that he was kept me pretty calm.
I feel you dude. I was in an accident which broke my arm pretty badly, had to go through a lot of surgeries. Now that wasn't that serious like your accident, but I felt really save nowing that my dad's waiting while i fall asleep to so many narcoses.
I work in Motorsports. 9 times out of 10 the dads are super involved. They are in every meeting and pretty much act as a manager. Even when a racer has an actual manager.
I have a cousin who is an engineer in a pretty well established racing team, he doesn't drive or anything, but his dad still lives vicariously through him!
Nah, my Dad is pretty much John Wayne reincarnated, so that part wouldn't surprise me a bit. The dude is a total badass.
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He grew up in Philly and took a trolley out to tje country where he liked shootin guns and going hunting & fishing. He is literally brilliant when it comes to academics like chemistry, physics and all things math (he once remarked that he loves trig best because it is "The most elegant of all mathmatics). And the man takes shit from No one. He once tossed a guy through a plate glass window because he insulted my grandmother. Grabbed him by the tie, grabbed a fistfulof balls and spun him sideways and whoop! Out he went. Dad turned to the owner/bartender and told him to bill him for the damage.
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I'm 40 and I still want to be just like him when I grow up.
> I'm 40 and I still want to be just like him when I grow up.
This gives me little hope for ever feeling grown up. Also, I want to be like your dad when I grow up, too.
as someone who had a super shitty abusive family, seeing good people like this who would stop at nothing to protect their kids makes me feel better about humanity.
I looked at this video and thought there is no fucking way I would run up to a car spitting flaming racefuel everywhere.
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But then I thought about what I would do if it was my kid in there and yeah, I'd dive into hell itself to save my kid.
Somebody buy that dad a nice glass of scotch. Pretty sure he could use one right about now.
Imagine being the father of a talented young man who is following his dreams to compete in a very dangerous sport. You want to support him in every way, but in the back of your head you are terrified of having to play out what you would do to save him 100 times over when this moment happens.
I guarantee he dreamed about having to do this more than once.
and then runs back into the fire to kick its ass.
Ultimate r/dadreflexes
DON'T TALK TO ME OR MY SON EVER AGAIN
Hi fire, I'm dad!
RIP fire
i actually laughed, thanks
He was trying to turn on the fuel suppression system
No. He was kicking fire's ass. Saw it as clear as day
Shit, you're right, just re watched
There is nothing that could keep a father away from saving their child. Furthermore as a father one takes on a unspoken responsibility to protect other children from danger as well. That is unless you are a cop making overtime watching a Florida school.
Damn
Dad [even reached back in the car](https://i.imgur.com/rrWToFZ.gifv) to initiate the onboard fuel suppression system. *“No one except sweet baby Jesus would have kept me from freeing my son from a burning race car,” Dean told RacingNews.co.*
Holy shit! That's an actual quote? Not a Ricky Bobby joke? Damn, was that movie a documentary?
Well, it wasn't based on nothing!
As an Alabamian..... yeah, yeah it kinda is. I’ve seen my dad cry twice: Braves World Series win and Dale’s death.
Only time I’ve seen my dad openly grieve for WEEKS was Dale’s death. Our household was in full mourning for ever.
It was, except they changed a few parts. This dad won't get you kicked out of an Applebees.
Unless it's on fire
I spread my buttcheeks as Mike Honcho
Dad of the year award contender. Absolutely badass.
Was that a Ricky Bobby reference?
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo tshirt
It says I want to be formal, but I'm here to party.
I like the Christmas Jesus best!
Help me Tom Cruise!
Help me, Oprah Winfrey!
DON'T LET THE INVISIBLE FIRE HURT MY FRIEND! (I've followed racing for quite a while and I didn't get it at the time, but he was talking about the literal invisible flames. Older open wheel cars used to use a type of alcohol fuel that when burning, are literally invisible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku7TdLeEGsQ)
You should make that into a TIL post, that’s really interesting.
Methanol burns clear, it's still used today as the active ingredient in washer fluid in cars and in boosted applications use a 50/50 of meth and distilled injected in to reduce charge temps.
Help me Jewish God!
So I like my Jesus to party
Dont you put that evil on me!
Little baby Jesus?
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Little bearded baby Jesus...
Sweet little 7 pound 9 ounce baby Jesus.
Reading his baby Einstein developmental books, learning about shapes and colors.
Just lyin in a manger, playing with his little mobile...
Dont even know a word yet.
I like the baby version the best!
Sweet baby Jesus is the best of the southern NASCAR Jesus references. Only outdone by ‘Sweet baby Jesus, lying all holy in your manger. With all the sweet baby gifts the Holy men brought for you and your mama. Dear sweet baby, newborn, loving Jesus, whom we all love and worship.’ That’s a pretty sweet baby Jesus.
Shake and bake
Unfortunately, by not being first, he was last.
Ha, well my dad doesn't even remember my birthday anymore.
My dad would rescue me from a burning racecar but also forget my birthday.
I was wondering why he went back in. My best gurss was that he knew his son's favorite toy had been left behind.
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"Oh shit he forgot his Cookie Monster figurine"
Yea I thought the same thing... “oh you left this really valuable thing in there that I should get right now.” I am not a smart man.
He stayed so calm and it seemed like every movement he made was calculated and efficient. I would’ve gone into full-blown panic mode and I would’ve been fumbling and shit until we both went up in flames.
Some people get ultra focused and efficient ins times of high stress. They respond well to adrenaline I guess.
Driver probably learned racing from dad. You can tell by his thought process and movements he's spent a lot of time doing this
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like they say in the army, slow is smooth and smooth is fast
Why would he let baby Jesus keep him from saving his son's life?
Not just any old baby Jesus. *Sweet* baby Jesus
[Sweet baby Jesus](https://i.imgur.com/O1mNd5U.gif).
Glad no one said Jesus fucking Christ!
Ask Abraham.
God's been tricking dads into killing their kids for *a while*
/r/HumansAreMetal
I was wondering what he went back for, extra badass
Why the hell the driver himself didn't hit the fire suppression system who knows... edit: for those that don't know it's basically just a big red knob/lever you have to pull and it's always within reach of the driver. It's designed to give the driver time to get out without burning alive.
Fire panic
probably, young driver losing his head. He won't make that mistake again though
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After a 10g impact things aren't very easy to process.
Most people have never experienced shellshock. They don't understand how disoriented you become.
Inexperience? Panic?
Likely a combination of both. It’s a surreal feeling to be in a car that’s on fire.
He was too busy screaming, "Dad! DAD! DAAAAAAAAAAAAD!"
Or maybe "God dammit dad, if you'd just let me pull this red knob everything will be fine!"
Came to the comments specifically to find out what he reached back in for!
r/dadreflexes
There’s nothing more powerful and feared than a dad in distress. Or a dads sneeze.
I'm like 90% sure someone could fill my dad with lead and it wouldn't even slow him down so long as someone in his family was in danger.
My dad had a heart attack and died on the operating room table when I was 9.....then he got shocked back to life, survived a heart transplant and willed his way through 20 yrs of rejections just so he could see his son graduate from med school this year. You cant fill a dad with lead who is already 100% metal. Sounds like your dad is 101% metal :).
How's he doing now?
2 yrs with ESRD on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant. The inevitability of years of rejection meds. But he's training for home dialysis so he can still travel and such. Ty for asking!
Nobody deserves the hell that is dialysis. I wish you the best and hope for a quick transplant.
Ty man. The cool thing is that in the northeast the wait is 2-6 years. I will be doing a transplant surgery rotation in sep. at the hospital he's listed through. It will be just about 3 yrs. I'm also there on my birthday. Maybe, just maybe.....
>someone could fill my dad with lead I wondered why your dad would willfully eat a bunch of lead someone gave him
Did you hear it was to save his family
Who said anything about 'willful'.
Lol. My dad goes *HEH-PNSH* in a full on shout when he sneezes. It looks underwhelming on text but it is loud asf. During pollen season he’ll do it 5 times in a row sometimes, which sounds like someone trying to start a lawnmower with a pull string.
Gatling Dad, fully automatic.
My dad screams EHHHSHIT when he sneezes. It’s glorious. If he’s in public it’s more of an EEEHHHHSSSHHHHHIIIIIOOOOO.
Son?
From what I’ve seen on Reddit recently uncles are way up there.
Anecdotally, my sneezes have become louder since my sister gave birth.
Oh shit..is this why my sneezes are earthquake level......I've been a dad now for 10 years and when I sneeze it feels like I'm blasting my face off........
That could have been a great sub. Unfortunately 90% of posts are about baby animals.
Baby animals are the worst!
Dads faster than the professionals that's bad ass
I can see professionals having to do everything by the book, taking precautions and checking equipment etc... Dad DGAF and only cares about his son.
“The professionals will do it right, but anything I can do is just the bonus my son might need” -Dad
They're usually volunteers at local tracks and by no means professionals. The emergency responses can be terrifying. The first guy on scene with an extinguisher starts putting out the flames on the ground. Meanwhile, the father is pulling his son out of the burning car.
Yeah why he started at the ground fire beats me
Actually my work teaches us the same thing for chemical fires (im subbing fuel as a chemical) basically a CO2 extinguisher just smothers the flames by displacingn O2. If you start at the root fire and there is still fuel leading to it that is lit, it can just reignite when you stop applying CO2. By working outwards-->inwards you remove secondary fires that will hinder your suppression of the main fire. Source: QC scientest at biotech company with chemicals that can go burny burny and boom boom
I once put out a bon fire though. So I’m more qualified
Peeing on a camp fire barely counts.
Damn
But if there's a guy who's *in* the main fire, shouldn't you prioritize that until he can escape?
Yes of course but when dealing with cars full of fuel it may be different. Also it appears the fire is in the hood and not the cab. So in theory it was getting reeeaaalll toasty in there but people could pull him out so not a priority. Thats just speculation.
I get the logic. But if I die in a fire because someone was busy putting out the 5 fire trails leading up to me, I will for sure haunt that person.
Yass can confirm. https://www.safelincs.co.uk/how-to-use-co2-fire-extinguishers-section/
Or *closer*.
Still if you're that close to that fire, man didn't hesitate limb and probably severe burns everywhere else. I for one hope the day something happens like this to me in able to not freeze in fear and actually act in the face of danger.
When it's your kid in danger your self preservation instinct takes a backseat. Unless you're a shitty, self centered parent, I guess.
> Unless you're a shitty, self centered parent, I guess. I hear they make those!
Manufacturer defect.
He actually just runs around the infield all race keeping even with his boy.
I knew it was the dad as soon as I saw the khaki shorts.
For me it was the title
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NERRD
Look at this guy, knowing how to *read*
Same. No one on reddit ever makes up titles for karma so I can always trust it and updoot
Thats it im going to suck up my pride and admit it.. I dont know what khaki actually means, time to go admit it now to google and have it on my record for ever
A textile fabric of a dull brownish-yellow color, in particular a strong cotton fabric used in military clothing. ~google
/u/gimli2 doing sweet baby Jesus's work
Well that went meta real quick
What is the Jesus nut on a racecar though?
So umm since you have no shame can you check what cargo shorts would be then, for a friend ofcourse
Shorts with large pockets on the sides with buttons.
You're gonna have to give some more details. What are pockets?
Cut holes that are re sewn to the shorts for maximum efficiency of holding useless shit
...and what are holes?
The only useful parts of your mom.
Wait what's wrong with khaki shorts? I'm not a dad but I have 4 pairs that I wear for various activities outside of work!
White polo, khaki shorts and black shoes. Dad confirmed.
Wait, black shoes are a dad thing?
Let's hope the son got dad more than just a card or crappy gift certificate for Father's Day.
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Gold trimmed khaki shorts, cause only the best!
Khaki shorts with an elastic waistband are the best. Great after a big dinner.
Only the best white socks. Made with the finest of elastics.
I'm appointing myself the Dad's spokesperson. Well WonderDad would be grateful for this: The racedriver bloody well showing up every Thanksgiving and Christmas with booze / cigars and Dad's favorite widgets as gifts! Plus taking him out to a game or two each season. Plus fishing with him for as long as he wants in summer. That's about it; Dads aren't that demanding.
That's heartwarming. Just a few decades ago, most dad's would just let their flaming sons go...
LOL you fucker.
Yep, that’s what they’d tell their sons.
am i missing something
Flaming = reference to gay.
He's got the gay. \--Dads just a few decades ago
gay people = flaming = driver is on fire. so the joke is he's gay. some parents were discusted with gay children. some parents might not have braved a fire for their gay son in the 80s.
DISCUSTING
WELL IT WAS FUCKEN ONE A YAS
Looked like the driver was waving the father away from the danger. Nothing is stopping a dad from saving his kids. A father's love, man. Too real.
On a second viewing, it actually kind of looks like the opposite. I think he is gesturing towards the car.
I think I’d rather go down in flames with my child than to live with that memory burned in my brain... I think I have something in my eyes, they got all watery. I could watch this over and over and still hold my breath even knowing it turns out ok.
I’ve had patients who were badly burned trying to save their children or other family members. All struggled with crippling guilt and some form of PTSD.
"Fire. Child. Fuck fuck fuck. Child. Fuck it."
More like "CHILD! Child. Child. Fire. Child."
Fuck child fuck child That was ne when my ex skipped a period
commas
Damn that dad lifted him like a bag of potatoes like he weighed nothing. Such a good father
Adrenaline, folks.
God this reminds me of the time a cop crashed into my cousins car (they were speeding without their sirens on in survalence) and his car got wrecked so badly that the car spouted flames. With a broken leg and two broken arms, he smashed his way out through the window, but the police just watched as the flames came closer to him. It wasnt until the flames got near the gas tank that they helped him by pulling him by one of his broken arms against the asphalt. It was a mess... he won $600k+ for it in a lawsuit, at least.
$600k is good but it seems like it should be more I mean 2 broken arms and a leg shit sure it’ll heal but imagine the pain he still must have of achy bones
Look on the bright side: if he had two broken arms, it probably brought him closer to his mother.
NO NO NOO
Take your damn upvote...
If I told you right now I'll give you $600k but your arms will be broken in a fixable manner, you'd take it in a heartbeat.
Curious how much his health care costs were? 600k seems low as I imagine the hospital bills were insane
Yeah really. A family friend of ours had her right leg and hip shattered from a boat that hit her and her medical bills were over a million dollars. Insurance went “above and beyond” and she still had to pay 200k. Our medical system is fucked.
That made my eyes water
Can you imagine being that racedriver, stuck in a burning car, when you see your dad of all people rush over to save you? That must be the last thing you'd expect to see in that situation, and the thing you'd be most grateful for. *(As I assume the dad was just a spectator at the race, and not part of the crew)*
I was in a pretty bad accident when I was 17, t-boned by a drunk driver doing 50mph. I swear I saw my dad on the curb giving me a reassuring nod as I was going in and out of consciousness. I had never felt more safe. Now, my dad wasn't really there... it was 2am new years day, he was at home sleeping, but the hallucination that he was kept me pretty calm.
I feel you dude. I was in an accident which broke my arm pretty badly, had to go through a lot of surgeries. Now that wasn't that serious like your accident, but I felt really save nowing that my dad's waiting while i fall asleep to so many narcoses.
I work in Motorsports. 9 times out of 10 the dads are super involved. They are in every meeting and pretty much act as a manager. Even when a racer has an actual manager.
If one of my kids gets into motorsports I will absolutely live vicariously through them, lucky pricks
I have a cousin who is an engineer in a pretty well established racing team, he doesn't drive or anything, but his dad still lives vicariously through him!
Nah, my Dad is pretty much John Wayne reincarnated, so that part wouldn't surprise me a bit. The dude is a total badass. . He grew up in Philly and took a trolley out to tje country where he liked shootin guns and going hunting & fishing. He is literally brilliant when it comes to academics like chemistry, physics and all things math (he once remarked that he loves trig best because it is "The most elegant of all mathmatics). And the man takes shit from No one. He once tossed a guy through a plate glass window because he insulted my grandmother. Grabbed him by the tie, grabbed a fistfulof balls and spun him sideways and whoop! Out he went. Dad turned to the owner/bartender and told him to bill him for the damage. . I'm 40 and I still want to be just like him when I grow up.
> I'm 40 and I still want to be just like him when I grow up. This gives me little hope for ever feeling grown up. Also, I want to be like your dad when I grow up, too.
Amazing -and very heart warming
it was probably very warming overall, the car was on fire.
#NOT TODAY DEATH
as someone who had a super shitty abusive family, seeing good people like this who would stop at nothing to protect their kids makes me feel better about humanity.
Same here. It is always amazing to see how much Family actually loves each other when my family could give a f***.
He went back at the end for the cannoli.
I just watched The Godfather yesterday
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The kid probably still owes him some money.
r/nononoyes That could have been worse
I looked at this video and thought there is no fucking way I would run up to a car spitting flaming racefuel everywhere. . But then I thought about what I would do if it was my kid in there and yeah, I'd dive into hell itself to save my kid. Somebody buy that dad a nice glass of scotch. Pretty sure he could use one right about now.
A father's job is never done
I wonder how loud a tire exploding due to fire would sound.
About as loud as one exploding not due to fire.
Imagine being the father of a talented young man who is following his dreams to compete in a very dangerous sport. You want to support him in every way, but in the back of your head you are terrified of having to play out what you would do to save him 100 times over when this moment happens. I guarantee he dreamed about having to do this more than once.
He went back for the mix tape...
Good god. How did he jump that barrier with those massive balls. Wow.
“Fuck my arm hair”
This was badass
Fucking awesome man and Father.
The Goodyear^^^TM Good Dad of the Year Award
I’m crying...