I had put a controller together for a guy over a year ago for the 24 hours of LeMons (lemons, like junky cars). It's the first ever electric that they have ever done. It's on a real life racetrack with people in the stands and everything! He just took it for a maiden voyage tonight. Nothing blew up!
There's an update at the bottom of this page here:
Got the Go-ahead from HQ for my IoE idea (Page 10)