Compared to other cars that can do two minute laps, they're quite reliable, but any car that can do that kind of lap takes a serious punishment, especially at Sebring, and you either fix when it breaks or you proactively replace parts; I do a combination of both and we're constantly adjusting what we replace and when based on experience. I don't have the budget that an ALMS team has to just replace a ton of parts after each race.

The issues I've had have all been small stupid ones or major ones caused by me. i.e. the problem that has baffled us for the past three events with my car turns out to be a $5 oil temperature sensor, and the last expensive problem was when I missed a shift, chipped a gear which proceeded to destroy all the other gears; that's not necessarily difficult to do when you're running a dog engagement gearbox, you don't clutch and you have 390 HP, so just one of those things that can happen when you're driving a car at that level; one mistake per year means $5k in new gears. Other than stupid things like that, the car is rock solid, nothing like my old Radical where things broke all the time and I went through three engines before selling it.

The 250 HP Juno with paddle shift is $85k, the 390 HP model like mine can get into the $135k+ range. The 250 is really a great deal, the thing has nearly three times the engine rebuild interval as the V6, costs much less to run and in the right hands can do a 2:08, there's really no car that will touch it in both its price to buy and price to run. Makes a good rental car too since the paddle shift won't allow you to overrev the engine. Only downside to it is it doesn't have 390 HP, so although mine costs a lot more to operate, there's just an entirely different rush trying to break two minutes vs trying to break 2:10.

I've just put in an order for paddles for my car, I figured it will prevent me from destroying any more gears and will also let me concentrate on my driving alone rather than thinking about shifting. I'll have it installed before the Sept PBOC race.