As you know I blew an axel during the burnout comp in June. I never explained why it snapped. First of all before the burnout comp we pulled out the axels and inspected them and noticed that the splines were very slightly twisted – thats a sign that they are already weakend. It's very common to twist splines with a locked diff. We couldn't source a new pair of axels in time, so we threw them back in and gave it a quick test to make sure that they were going to hold up for atleast one burnout.

It turned out that the twisted axels only played a small part in the axel blowing. What I didn't realise was that one of the stockies had a plug fitted to the tyre from a previous puncture. When the tyre wore down it spat the plug out causing a pinhole leak which was actually caught by a photographer. So the left hand wheel was now flat and the right was still fully inflated.

Locked diffs + uneven load on the wheels = blown axel.