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Originally Posted by Rampage
Thank you for the great coverage. I am really disappointed that there are no teams in the US that are racing the FR-S professionally. The car is legal for classes in both the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge and the Pirelli World Challenge Series. The prevailing theory on this absence seems to be concerns about the reliability of the engine. I see that you mentioned that the engines are stock with just exhaust changes and a remapped tune. Have the TMG or other European teams had issues with the direct injector seals, heat or oil starvation that seem to plague some of the amateurs who track the FR-S or run time trials in the US ?
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You know that's a really good question that I never thought to ask!!
What I do know is the GT86 would probably be about the 3rd or 4th most popular car in the VLN, I think there's about 14 or so cars? (need to confirm) so drivers are happy with it going the distance on 4hr 6hr and 24hr races.
For a lot of teams this is their 2nd season with the car so it will be interesting to see how they get on at the 24 hour race in 2 weeks.
I'll ask one of the teams and see if they will let me know how the engine is coping or if any cup members had problems.
But from what I've seen so far, it's a more than capable car so I can't understand why they're running in the pirelli world challenge or conti sports car challenge. They're getting better lap times around the ring than MX5's with up to 50bhp more!