{"id":108930,"date":"2025-08-31T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108930\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:19:10","slug":"nascar-driver-jumps-out-of-car-as-feet-are-engulfed-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108930\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Driver Jumps Out Of Car As Feet Are Engulfed In Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"MattCredit: NASCAR via Getty Images\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Matt DiBenedetto was a real hot shoe during the NASCAR Xfinity Series<\/a> at Portland on Saturday, but not in a good way.<\/p>\n

At the end of stage one of the Pacific Office Automation 147, the Viking Motorsports driver pulled off the track and jumped out of the window and onto the grass.<\/p>\n

He then took his left shoe off and sat there, appearing to be in distress. After he left the infield care center without injury, he explained on The CW what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a big fire at my feet, so, I was all of a sudden, my feet were getting really hot, I looked down and they were engulfed in flames,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, I pulled off and tried to get out really quick and in a hurry \u2019cause they were fully on fire and when I was getting out one of my laces from my shoes got wrapped around the pedals, so I went to get out and I was actually stuck, feet were directly in the flames.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he was thankful for the heat shields and safety gear drivers wear, which include shields strapped on the outside of the fireproof shoes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI prayed on the third time getting out for God to get me out of that thing and thankful I got out on that last try,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The cause of the fire has not yet been announced by the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit: NASCAR via Getty Images Matt DiBenedetto was a real hot shoe during the NASCAR Xfinity Series at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-108930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}