Well, my Monster now has two successful races under it's belt and about an hour of total runtime. Absolutely no problems whatsoever to report. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to give it as hard a workout as I had planned. We ran the track dry so it was slip-n-slidesville and we only ran a 8 min. main. I did work the brakes a little more than at the first race with the same excellent results. Ambient temp. was higher as well; about 95degrees. The Monster temped at 115 degrees after the 8 min main, Neu @ 140 and batteries barely over 100. With all the failure reports, I'm still reluctant to spend too much coin traveling until the second batch is available and I have a backup but so far so good.