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Disagree guys that the car was not good.
I know some of the guys involved into the development and was able to talk to them at Spa 2018 and where also able to have a look at the car in detail at the pits. The design even in details was very good, also on the aero side. The car run one of the highest front footboxes eve designed in LMP ( beside the latest Audi RP6 and the stillborn RP7) giving them plenty of room to manage the air travelling over the front splitter and coming from the front diffusor. Toyota has a major drawback in this area.
The problem is that the aerodynamic guys have had further developments for a high downforce package ( higher rear deck, larger dive-planes, shuttered turning vanes in the front diffusor exit) and a LM package with low rear deck, changed rear wing and more bulbous, vertical front fenders ready developed. They needed only to produce the parts which never happened. If a car nearly don't run you could not develop it
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