DAVEY Watt will be hoping there won't be any major traffic congestion today when he travels to Wolves for Pirates' opening Elite League fixture tonight (7.30pm).
That's because the Aussie doesn't want to repeat an extraordinary performance that occurred before Poole Castle Cover's meeting at Lakeside earlier this month.
Stuck in gridlock on the M25 almost within spitting distance of the Arena-Essex Raceway, Watt was beginning to feel a bit under prepared for a clash that was due to start in less than two hours' time.
So he unloaded his speedway bike onto the motorway and gave a first-hand exhibition of how to fit an engine to other road users.
Looking back on the incident, Watt said: "We were stuck in traffic just before the Dartford toll and decided we would take advantage of a bit of free time and fit the new engine I had just picked up from Craig Boyce.
"My mechanic Jack and Scott Nicholls' Swedish and Polish mechanic Slammer, who we were giving a lift to the airport, fitted the engine in record time.
"They did it in about 20 minutes, but they didn't need to worry, we were stuck there for about an hour.
"I don't know what the other people stuck in the traffic around us thought of it.
"Some of them got out and asked a few questions, and I think some of them thought I had inside knowledge of how long we were going to be stuck for."
The new engine certainly did the trick as Watt scored 10 points from five rides in Poole's 53-40 defeat.
Pirates team manager Neil Middleditch said: "Davey was just up the road from me and we were both stuck in a major delay about two or three miles from the track.
"I'm renowned for being late to Lakeside myself and was just beginning to fear the worst again.
"All of a sudden, my phone bleeps and it's a photograph of Davey getting his bike prepared on the M25.
"If the traffic had got any worse I thought maybe he was planning on riding the bike to the track.
"My record for getting to Lakeside is dreadful, so it was light hearted Davey sending me that photo just as I was thinking I was going to miss the start of another meeting there because of the traffic."
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