There are a lot of Corvette racers running on stickier and wider tires than an S2000. In the case of my car raced on 315 front and 335 rear A7s, without a doubt some of the stickiest tires available, I run anywhere from 3250 lbs to 3450 lbs depending upon which class I am racing in at the time. I have a lot more track days on my wheels than most people, F14s included. I cracked one spoke on one wheel in the past four years and I could trace that wheel history to a high speed run on Auto Club Speedway with one of the wheels not properly torqued. That wheel cracked the spoke a few months later.

We talked to Forgestar about this video the morning it was posted and I will comment with some things that aren't being said by the S2000 driver as well as some things that are obvious in his video, if you know what to look for.

1. This S2000 driver is hitting every curb on that track. I've driven Buttonwillow and those are not "little curbs", either. Curb crashers break all wheels.

2. This car looks too softly sprung and was BOTTOMING THE SUSPENSION on every curb he hit (edit: if you read his S2000 forum posts, he has apparently blown out one set of KW coilovers already). Jason and I have watched the video several times and that setup is a recipe for disaster - no matter the wheel maker.

3. This set of Forgestars was THREE years old. They weren't just used a handful of times, either. He clearly misrepresented that in his video.

4. All four wheels had cracks in the spokes the driver ignored for a long time. Old cracks which propagated over many race weekends. And they made LOUD noises for a good while before they let go - you can hear them in the video. The close-up pics revealed the cracks had been there for months and the raw aluminum had started to corrode inside the cracks. Anyone that would have done even a simple HPDE inspection would have seen these cracks long before the first wheel let go.