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All my pea-brain can connect to is, Tesla's front underbody design.
The forward-most belly section curves gently down from the nose to a lower elevation where the belly pan levels off.
Ahead of the hour-glass, wheel-flop, openings, the plastic 'pan' section has angled aircraft carrier jet 'blast-fence-like ' extensions, like Goro Tamai's 'taco fairings' from MIT, which presumably kick the flow downwards, across the open span, reattaching downstream of the Beechcraft Bonanza-esque front wheel trailing edge half-ducts, which blend into the outer extremities of the center belly pan section, perhaps handling the Tesla's radiator and AC condenser flow, dumping through slots into opposite front wheelhouses, ahead of the front tires.
Peter Rawlinson, now of Lucid may have had a hand in the design.
It's quite exquisite, very 'intentional' in its execution. A worthy benchmark.
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