This curious history would be located in the 1980's and perhaps also late 70s. Good circuit, relatively, comparing to other and urban spanish tracks of that times. The fact was that almost all and much frequent engine breaks happened next to a small tower where (...)

This curious history would be located in the 1980's and perhaps also late 70s. Good circuit, relatively, comparing to other and urban spanish tracks of that times. The track was considerable wide and fast due to the long straights it had. The fact was that almost all and much frequent engine breaks happened next to a small tower built on the left of the pavement of the longest straight, about 3 or 4 meters high, which a high voltage electric transformer. It was not the point where the top speed was reached, it was at about 2/3 of the total length of the straight, just where the the grass zone began. This was how the mystery kept on growing as the years went by and people who raced there did not trust their engine at all every lap by the tranformer's tower.

During those years, nobody gave a reason to explain it was happening. It went word of mouth from the most experienced to the most novice, warning that it was a dangerous place. Now however, we will try to give some reasons or causes that technically would make sense. Thinking about it for some time, we have distinguished two types of likely theories: on one side there is the fact that every electric current generates a magnetic field and this could make some metallic elements of the kart stop working the way they are supposed to, and on the other, that the small construction could cause changes to the temperature, wind direction, humidity and other atmospheric conditions at that point.

From our point of view, considering the electric installation inside seemed like uncared and not operative, so there would be no electric current that could generate magnetic fields. That makes the first group of hypothetical explanations almost impossible to be the cause and begin to believe the atmospherical conditions changes be a closer explanation for the incidents.

Every change of state of ambient air conditions makes gas/air rate adjust needed, especially with two-stroke engines, to optimize performance and keep its reliability. If the tower of the transformer caused a decrease of the temperature at that place, a change of wind's direction or speed, etc., it can prove that suddenly and for a little while enigines intake a poorer mix of air and gasoline with lubricant, causing lack of lubrication and a peak of heat inside. We believe this is the closest reason we have find that then engines broke there.