Parker Thompson fans the flames after the No. 12 Vassar Sullivan Lexus catches fire early Sunday afternoon at the Rolex 24.
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00:00 Welvers on fire. Oh no!
00:04 What a race it's been for these guys.
00:08 Oh he's blocking Cadet.
00:10 Should they get around him?
00:12 Is that Aaron? I think that's Aaron.
00:16 Really dramatic scenes here at Daytona with the pole sitting pole winning car in GT Daytona.
00:26 Parker Thompson of the Vassar Sullivan Lexus organization.
00:30 You can see at this point smoke is already starting to fill the cockpit.
00:34 Radiator blow off is spitting a little bit.
00:38 And now the flames evident from underneath that carbon fiber hood.
00:44 And as a driver at this point spotters on the radio and he's probably yelling get out, get out, big fire.
00:52 You probably don't even need to hear that. You know it in the cockpit.
00:56 And now you just feel helpless.
01:00 There's going to be a track worker that's going to politely hand you a fire extinguisher.
01:04 Self service down there.
01:06 But serious flames.
01:10 That eats into the electronics right away.
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