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Brommers
My dad and uncle were doing a test day at Donington in the early 90's with my uncle's newly purchased Tuscan race car which was as per the original spec using 4x 48mm Dellortos. When in the pit garage, they started the car and it spluttered, spitting back through the carbs and setting fire to the filter. Everyone in the garage was voicing their opinion that my uncle should give it a boot full of throttle to clear it's throat and extinguish the flames but he couldn't help but think that potentially adding more fuel into the mix could make things worse. Eventually he pulled the plumbed in extinguisher release and a what could be best described as a dribble was emitted. The bottle was empty and somebody's leather jacket was eventually used to extinguish the flames. #CSB