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I know they wanted to stay out of ground effect and that's why it's so jacked up, but the Morelli shape was tested without wheels or anything between it and the ground plane. Simply adding wheels and their fairings and the struts must have had an effect on the flow all along the bottom and even lower sides of the body, such that I wonder if the ground effect aero was so disturbed by those things, that they could have just lowered it to a height suitable for handling anyway without incurring any further noticeable aero penalty.
I know they stiffened the bejeezus out of the springs at the X Prize competition in order to pass the slalom test. I wonder what the ride quality was with those springs? Even with that extreme front track width and stiff springs, those arm angles and CG look like deal killers to me.
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