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Planned Mods: Front wheel skirts, grill block, wiper deflector, kamm back, boat tail.
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Won't you have to pull off all the sweet aero mods before you enter as stock?
The reason I didn't enter this year is that I bought mine with the solar charger glued to the hood, so I figured I wouldn't be able to run in the stock category. And it just didn't seem right to run it as modified before I had a chance to install my 3-button shifter from Daox with the big green Ecomodder logo on it. . . .
Next year I'm all in, though! By then Ron Burgundy will be aero-modded and tweaked for the race, with a full grid charge the day before.
I plan on using my IMA battery heavily during the early part of the race (mostly around the first curve and up that first hill) with higher gears, and whatever slowing at the sharp curves will be done with the regen button, until I start getting a forced charge. Then off it goes (courtesy of the clutch button) until the race ends.
Once the battery is depleted and turned off (hopefully no less than 20 laps in), I also plan on having the motor running for very little of the race (courtesy of the kill switch), mostly just to bury it down that first hill past the start line until I'm over the hill, then off it goes, and the coasting begins.
That's the plan anyway, judging from the schematic of the track and the max 60 mph rule
Sorry I'll miss it this year!