Starter motors don’t work

UPDATE Hearing that Champ Car is allowing the teams to remove the starters from the cars since the poorly designed system does not work so why carry the dead weight of the starter and battery around. We also hear someone designed a system that would have worked but it was nixed in favor of this failed one.

04/08/07 So much for Champ Car putting starting motors on their new cars. Rumor has it that when the car is hot the battery does not have enough power to restart the car. If true Champ Car may as well remove the dead weight from the car because, as it turns out, the new Panoz weighs more than the Lola it replaced and the dead weight of the starter is one reason for it. The devil's in the details and this is another detail gone awry.