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Originally Posted by tdott
Could be due to different tracks, speeds, level of experience.
Driving miss daisy sure, you can go decades without bending a wheel. But at higher speeds and in competition it's fairly easy to bend a wheel or two, esp if you have an off. Sebring a track I frequent is known to be a bumpy track with punishing curbs, could be the reason...
How often? Not that often, back in 2012 - 2016, I had a set of Apex Arc8s, two had slight bends, nothing major, balanced out but annoying on the highway drives. 2017 - 2023 had a set of Ta5r, similar issue two had slight bends, nothing major, balanced out but annoying on the highway drives. 2023 - current, vs5rs holding up well so far, had more abuse than the previous two sets (became an instructor/more frequent track days + started time trials competition).
Ask any w2w racer, bent wheels are fairly common even forged sometimes.....
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Interesting. I guess WRL race driving and literally hundreds of laps at COTA isn't good enough. I frequent a lot of tracks around Texas like MSR, ECR etc and I guess I haven't seen the crazy curbs you're running into. To Each their own I suppose.