You have captured the essence of my personal experience in this matter.

 

8 events is good, I had an OEM set last only 2 track days...that was with Endless CC-R pads.

Are there rotors out there that are significantly stronger than the OEM ones?

 

It's not the strength, it's the thermal cycling. Free-floating rotors would have less stress on them, but carbon rotors would be ideal. And also several thousand dollars each.

The most effective solution, cost-wise, is to just use the cheapest OEM-type iron rotors you can find.

 

is it better to open up the dust shield?

 

trying to find some good track tested rotors since im into my 3rd pair now.

 

Remove it completely or use it to attach some brake ducting

 

I agree, whats a set of good true tested track rotor?

 

anything that is expensive. more expensive is way better. holes help too.

 

dont feel bad man. I managed to crack a brand new DBA rotor this weekend as well in atlanta, and im running XP12s F and Xp10s R. with no sheild and ducts.

was my fault really, was taking a few friends for a ride on sunday in the second to last HPDE 3 session and i guess i was stoped to long in pit lane waiting for someone to get in the car. Ill get a picture of it up later tonight, I cracked it half.

 

The XP12's are extremely rotor aggressive, at least from my experience on the S2000. I would not expect to get much more than a couple track events out of them.