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Originally Posted by carbsmith
You just raise the front ride height if you want to run downforce that low. You usually only have a problem if it's like the 2000 LMP rules for the V12 LMR where the rear wing was maxed out and wasn't enough to get the overall downforce level they wanted so they just ran the front end with diveplanes and a low splitter and depended on their drivers to live with the imbalance. Although I doubt most teams would have done that, Schnitzer's approach to racing the Audis was to just go flat out qualifying mode every lap and hope things worked out.
Mazda is still the split engine cover.
But that's not exactly important, the LMP2 and DPi still have different fender profiles and thus can't be the same engine cover or tail. If you take their story at face value then the part they were talking about as the rear deck has to have been either the rear wing or the shark fin itself. |
Thanks, knew someone would catch that detail somewhere. Figured they haven't changed too much but IMSA made it sound like the updates to the Mazda chassis are done on the Riley as well, outside of the DPi specific bits and styling.
I wanted to give RWR the benefit of the doubt but sounds like they either had bigger repairs, ie undertray, rear frame bits or deeper inside, or they hadn't arranged for spares or they just didn't want to send out a guy who couldn't pay for more parts to break the car again. Only thinking that as he's now fired and the "NASCAR driver" they claimed to have signed hasn't been announced yet so.