Now THAT’s a smoke bomb!

[NewArt]

Just back from my first track day since I blew up my engine last September. New motor ran well with a couple of incidents. I am using the MantisSport deep sump and I had slightly overfilled the oil. On my second session, I was starting to push it (new motor and all). Suddenly boom, I look in the mirror and see nothing but smoke. I pulled off the track thinking «oh darn», I’ve blown another engine! However, it was still running with no apparent problems so I signalled the flagger to go back on track. Then I saw the red flags were out so I immediately pulled back off the track thinking, oh no, there’s been a crash! So the ambulance comes by me then stops, backs up and stops beside me! They get out, fire extinguishers in hand and want me to open the hood! Sorry to have caused so much consternation guys, but I’m not on fire!
Next session went fine after removing a good half litre of oil. Running oil at the half way mark seems to be the key. Wish that motorsport AOS wasn’t so damned expensive!