I am not worried about theft in this location but fire safety and keeping the battery charged. If thieves get in, the M3W will be the very last car they steal. There are exceeding valuable historic Ferrari racers and similar in this location plus various modern supercars.
With the unscrewing type battery master switch, you are never going to use it to turn the engine off. That risk usually comes from overenthusiastic marshals pulling the master switch cable to turn the engine off after an incident before you can turn the car off yourself.
I had one of them set off my fire extinguisher in a Ralt RT40 F2 car on a Belgian hill climb, when I had gone into the armco after a rear suspension track control arm's titanium rose joint failed in the middle of a 130MPH bend. The car was not on fire, I was just gathering myself together to get out of the car after a fairly high G but non-injuring accident, when up he trundles and pulled what he thought was the master switch but was the cable control for the Lifeline plumbed in extinguishers. At least that was back in the days of Halon not the horrible modern sticky AFFF but about 3 litres of freezing cold Halon dumped in my lap. I didn't know I knew so many French swear words.
Last edited by WilsonLaidlaw; 22/09/15 04:07 PM.
