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Old 04-30-2012 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Krafcik
Thank you!

What about part support? you mentioned you bent something during testing - how are the arms holding up (i'm a mugen driver - can you tell?).
Our spare parts orders are being produced at the same time so we should have spares a week or so after the initial shipment. We've tested almost a dozen composites for the arms and we're very happy with the one we settled on. We've only broken one arm of the production material and it was full speed into the wall at a very awkward angle. We were surprised that nothing else broke.

We're not going to come on here and tell you that we haven't broken anything during testing, that's ludicrous . We broke plenty of things at first, and we worked hard to correct every issue we encountered. The car is very durable, on par with anything out there. It's pretty rare that we break something at this point in testing. We made hundreds of little design changes combined with a few material changes and we feel very comfortable slinging the car around the track.

All of our test cars weren't driven and tested by only pros. We have some top level guys out there driving for sure (Austin Blair, Lucas Sanford), but I'd say most of the testing was done by intermediate and expert drivers rather than pro drivers. We've been club racing and testing pretty much every single week, multiple times a week, since September 2011. Our offices are literally 20 steps from the driver's stand at SDRC, so we can test whenever we want or need to. An office tour video will be coming after release.
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