Originally Posted by Morph'sRC

Had a crazy day at the track today. Got off work early to have plenty of practice time at the track and play around with the setup. Well midway through my second pack after landing a jump, I get no response from the throttle. Grab the car back to the pit, check the temp on engine per normal, all appears fine at 130F. So I hit the throttle lightly to see if something is binding up and boom my ESC pops and catches fire...scares the hell out of me as I was leaning over the buggy at the time... Upon second inspection, one of the ESC pins blew out and the most damage is around that pin. I am dumbfounded and can only assume that there was a problem with the ESC board or that the rotor in the motor slipped (I'll look into that one when I calm down enough to do a full post Morten)... It was a RX8/1900Kv that ran real nice up until now .Ugh!