There have been three known issues thus far, with the latest happening during the first test session on ahead of this weekend’s $1 Million Challenge at The Thermal Club. The final 20 minutes of Friday’s morning two-hour run of testing, the left-front of Marcus Ericsson’s No. 28 Andretti Global Honda caught on fire as he rolled around the 17-turn, 3.067-mile road course.
“Some of the rotor guards that were on fire, the team continues to run and then it can extinguish itself with air flow to keep things cooling down,” Borner said. “But generally, a lot of the brake temp in the surrounding areas comes from if you do a hard stop, do some hard braking and then come back in, you need to cool it down as well. So, just variety of rotor guards can catch on fire from time to time.
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