What’s causing our DNFs: reliability issues or bad luck?

[Jeffrey.M]

I’m trying to figure out if my team’s recent string of DNFs is more down to our reliability issues or just plain bad luck. We’ve had two mechanical failures and one puncture from debris in the last three sprints, and it’s starting to feel like we can’t catch a break.

[Stephen.W]

We logged every DNF and tagged the fault. In three sprints we had two mechanical failures and a puncture. On paper it looks like reliability, but the failures weren’t all the same system and they were spread across different tracks, so it doesn’t point to a single root cause.

[Jeffrey_S]

I swapped a suspect bolt after sprint two and double checked wheel weights, pressures, and seals, but sprint three still bit us. It’s starting to feel more like bad luck than one obvious flaw, even though the sequence is annoying.

[Richard.W]

Is this really about reliability, or could it just be luck?

[MatthewA]

We drifted into a mini debate about prep versus the actual driving, then someone asked if maybe we’re chasing the wrong metric. Either way, the DNFs kept piling up and nothing felt firmly controllable.