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Flying Battery
Ex-Formula Atlantic racer, Bernard Hunter, arrived at Tower after the start of his race on the old circuit at Croft back in 1980 and was passed by his jump-start battery and the relevant leads which had been left attached to his car on the grid. The battery was last seen exploding into a mass of bits on the banking on the outside !! He also had a rather bizarre incident at Knockhill in the same year when on the last lap of practice for the Hitachi Formula Atlantic race, his engine blew up crossing up the start/finish line. It appears that the helmet intercom cable had been left disconnecetd after his last pit-stop and and had lodged in the timing belt on the front of the engine immediately behind his head. Result - very large and expensive bang !!
Also had a Metro Challenge car blow its engine at maximum revs coming thorugh Chapel onto the Hanger Straight at Silverstone back in 1985 at the GP meeting and part of the block came through the front wing and took a chunk out of the wall below the marshals post. Scary ! When we viewed the damaged engine after the event you could have put your foot in the hole left in the block !
Any more classic engine blow-ups ?
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