{"id":188308,"date":"2025-08-31T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188308\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:08:11","slug":"matt-dibenedettos-feet-engulfed-in-flames-in-frantic-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188308\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt DiBenedetto&#8217;s feet &#8220;engulfed in flames&#8221; in frantic escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/matt-dibenedetto\/14712\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt DiBenedetto<\/a>&#8216;s NASCAR Xfinity race came to an abrupt end at Portland on Saturday. The veteran driver was running 22nd in the No. 99 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/viking-motorsports\/48615\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Viking Motorsports<\/a> Chevrolet when he suddenly pulled into the grass on the final lap of Stage 1.<\/p>\n<p>The car came to a stop, and DiBenedetto seemed almost frantic as he climbed from the car, falling to the ground. He then sat there, removing his racing shoes and checking his feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After being checked and released from the infield care center,\u00a0DiBenedetto revealed exactly what was going on inside the race car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a big fire at my feet,&#8221;\u00a0DiBenedetto explained to The CW. &#8220;All of sudden, my feet were getting really hot. I looked down and they&#8217;re engulfed in flames. I pulled off and tried to get out really quick and in a hurry, because they were fully on fire. And when I was getting out, one of the laces of my shoes got wrapped around the pedals, so I went to get out and I was actually stuck.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dibenedetto.jpg\" alt=\"Matt DiBenedetto\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Matt DiBenedetto<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: NASCAR<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feet were directly in the flames and I&#8217;m super thankful for these heat shields and all the safety gear that we have in these cars. But they were burning and melting. I prayed on the third attempt getting out for God to get me out of that thing, and thankful I got out on that last try.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DiBenedetto even showed the burnt remains of his footwear, but thankfully, he suffered no burns in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt DiBenedetto&#8216;s NASCAR Xfinity race came to an abrupt end at Portland on Saturday. The veteran driver was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[105391,1406,5818,23077,105392,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-188308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-matt-dibenedettos-feet-were-engulfed-in-flames-in-frantic-escape","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-nascar-xfinity","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-international-raceway","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115120708346745988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}