We always had a spare onboard starter ready to go in the event ours failed. Much quicker swapping the starter than replacing the brushes in between rounds. But like I said, we only had 2 failures. I’m sure if we didn’t have the spare we would have inevitably had many more failures…Murphy’s Law!
I know lots of people have had issues with the onboard starters sbut in 4 years of racing TaG we used the onboard about 98% of the time and only had 2 starter failures. I had a very wise man (Joe Woronka…JW) show me how to rebuild them and to add a little silicone in the right places. But still a good idea to have an external handy cause you never know when they will fail.
