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Relevant to my interests haha, here’s the portion on engine reliability:

RCE: Are you guys on your factory motor?
GW: Yes.

RCE: And/or have you or have you heard of any other teams that have had issues around new motors?
GW: I can't speak for if people had issues in testing or this or that, right. I can say there were maybe one or two instances, maybe, during the year where people had to swap a motor out. So don't quote me on that, but I think—for sure there's probably an instance.

RCE: It's a race series so things happen.
GW: Right, right. But you got 30 cars across 14 events, so one or two engine is, I mean...

RCE: That's nothing.
GW: Right, right. For our team and what I was doing, the engine is stock and there were no issues with that. So, you know, I see some people complain about that and I'm sure there were some issues that people may have, but it doesn't come over and affect GR Cup.

RCE: And you guys have aero and are putting down downforce too—legit tires—so if anything you guys would experience that first.
GW: Yeah we run this stuff as hard as anyone is going to run it... I can just tell you that this stuff didn't break.

Thanks to the RCE team for the great interview!