You talk about these issues being predictable - i'm not sure that's fair or true. I'm sure both Simon and myself have posted in this thread more than once that we ran a season (including testing), without breaking an outdrive between us. I think i'm right in saying, that at time of release of the car, ZERO outdrives had been broken (there may have been one, i'm not 100% sure on this to be honest). So was the problem on launch predictable?? Well I wouldn't have predicted it.
After the first weekend of production cars being run (and some breakages) the head of R+D called me to confirm his thoughts that i hadn't broken any - this i did, so could it have been predicted?? No, not for me.
It appears to me, that the material on the production parts is ever so slightly different, and that why it happened, and that's why they moved to sort it. I haven't run the new parts, but i have seen some. I have also seen someone try and break one in a pair of pliers, and he couldn't even dent it. So for me, it looks like it's fixed.
Fair play, you've had your issues, and your entitled to your views, but i do think you're being a touch unfair. As for breakages of plastics, show me a car that doesn't break - and i'll show you one that hasn't even been crashed.
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