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Look for the guys that don't like burnouts that's your right, I don't like football. I don't go and trash talk them for doing so! If you have to ask why they do it, you will never understand.
Anyway back on topic, methanol is used to cool the engines as previously stated. The fires are caused with over-fuelling and tuned this way. They don't need to be tuned like this but the crowd's love to see fire (I don't but again different horses for different courses). There were talks going on to try and stop/disqualify cars if they had a fire, not sure why it hasn't happened yet but might be because of the crowds reactions. I would dare say it will be back on the tables after this one!
Some people go to these expecting things like fires/carnage to happen, then when it does they complain and bitch about not being enough safety!