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John Green's Fiery Race Car Disaster

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 2 months 1 week ago

YouTube Description:

In which John uses one of those clickbaity titles, but it is also the only accurate description of the video. John Green raced noted author and car enthusiast Maggie Stiefvater on a dirt track in Princeton, Minnesota, which led to these thoughts from that place.

Thanks to Rosianna for taking most of the footage: http://youtube.com/rosianna

And also to nerdfighter Severus Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/user/MjjSnopy

And to criosamn: https://www.youtube.com/user/criosamn

My Eleanor and Park t-shirt from dftba.com: http://store.dftba.com/products/eleanor-and-park-shirt

And thanks to Alan and everyone else in Princeton, Minnesota for giving us such an extraordinary evening and not letting me die.

(via Jalopnik)

7 Comments

I can't really see what happens but it kinda looks like his car just spontaneously catches on fire. Certainly he overcorrects and causes some undue stress with the car sliding sideways over the ground but... I don't think that should have caused it to start on fire. Basically, I think he's taking a bit more blame for the fire than he should be.

this guys voice is terribly annoying. only clicked the link because i thought it was tom green... not who green?

This is John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, front man for the Mental Floss youtube channel and one half of the vlogbrothers (along with his brother Hank).

this guys voice is terribly annoying. only clicked the link because i thought it was tom green... not who green?

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote cos John makes me happy

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by eric3579.

jokingly says...

Wow, $40,000+ Lancer beats a $750- partially wrecked homebuilt dirt track car. Who woulda thunk it?

I also think the "home crew" would have probably faired better against her because I'm absolutely certain they would have been told to not come in contact with her car, otherwise known as "racing" in those parts.

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