so you're upset someone crashed and their car burst in to flames becuase it was annoying for you?
Since both he and his co-driver got out fast enough to not get hurt/burned AT ALL, WHATSOEVER (so there is NO misplaced/'inappropriate' concern for an inanimate object over their well being
), yes, a bit upset that a very rare car (at least here in the USA) that I love (just like all of you love your MKIV TTs, Skylines/GTRs, exotics, 'hypercars', etc.) got completely destroyed, yeah, a little bit 'upset' (but NOT as upset as he must be, having just lost more than half a million bucks
, yeah,
even if he can 'afford it').
When I spoke to him at the awards ceremony, he told me that he DID trigger the on-board (extinguisher) system while exiting the car, but it being a fuel fire, it did NOTHING, and also he thinks that the fuel pump cutoff did not function, so it may have been feeding fuel to an already raging fire.
The good news is that he bought TWO Cossies, so he can build up/fully prep the next one even better, learning from his mistakes on this one (like developing a bomb-proof fuel rail).
Personally, I think he should just get a good 'privateer' R5 Fiesta built (or an old M-Sport works, '15 or '16 Mk7 Fiesta WRC, IF they will sell him one), and campaign that, similar to/an updated version of the one he won a couple of national rallies with in the recent past, as well as 2nd overall in the National Championships in 2013.
But he wants to be different, and he loves those old Escort Cossie RSes/WRCs as much as I do, so I
DO appreciate him giving us the chance to see one driven 'in anger' once again.
Here is the story, almost first hand (I was working/helping out the radio check point 2 points previous to this one on this stage);
http://www.thedrive.com/news/22337/behind-the-scenes-of-ken-blocks-rally-car-fire
Here is some video of the incident, there was still some of the foam the firefighters used to put out the trees and car on fire when I was finally able to drive out of the stage, past that poor burned-out shell of a Cossie.
https://jalopnik.com/ken-blocks-beautiful-1991-ford-escort-rs-burns-to-a-cri-1827772664