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    From: Russell Mill
    Sent: Friday, July 5, 2019 12:51pm
    It looks like the track software will need to be edited for the Christmas party Gumball race; the software will not count a lap faster than 3.4 sec.

    It looks like many of the usual chassis tuning, such as drag from the front wheels, independent front wheels, ball bearings, and any of the usual rolling resistance tweaks will be of lesser importance. Compared to the drag from magnets, the usual drag issues are, comparatively, much smaller.
    The biggest tuning issue may well be the tradeoff between greater downforce, compared to the induced drag from the downforce.

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