Originally Posted by akshayp14

i used the car again today and geared down, seems like the motor has burnt out, motor temps were like 122 C after 2/3 laps, and there would be a sudden loss of power from half way into the throttle, on top of this the motor seemed to cog quite bad.

and after the 2/3 laps the esc went into thermal shutoff (first time I've EVER thermal-ed an rx8), temps were like 105 C.

just want to know how i go about diagnosing the problem?