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Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 17 November 2016 15:18:20 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

He was on his way to a fire, overevved it and the pistons hit the
valves on the way down.

That doesn't happen by 'redlining' any engine. It's the sort of thing
that happens if you select a silly low gear at speed and *vastly*
overspeed the engine.

He actually missed a gear and floored it in neutral.

Still a bad design if that broke it.

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