[Medders]

Originally Posted by andys

Carl, Please take this in the light hearted manner it's intended, it's a wild guess, but I think I may have being marshalling before you got into this 'hobby' (never forget that lads it's important, this isn't a sport!), anyway I digress, I've had to marshall plenty of cars in my time that have had the speedo go POP, it used to be quite a regular thing in the good old days, anyway when a speedo goes, what happens normally is that the motor runs at full power and it's uncontrolable. Quite alarming really.

Now correct me if i'm wrong, but wrangling with somones car on your knee, running at full power with smoke coming out of it isn't good. Thankfully, when this has happened to me i've being able to, wait for it.... unplug the batteries. Horray ! Suprisingly this has the desired effect and renders the dangerous projectile usless and it can sit and smoke in peace.

If I am ever Unfortunate enough to marshall an out of control car that has the cells soldered in, i'll simply leave it to it's own devices, it's simply too dangerous to handle in my opinion. Maybe i'll leave it to one of the 'Big-Lads' to sort out, they'll know what to do !

I think that about sums it up