GTS,

Quote Originally Posted by GTS View Post

Despite an impressive CG height, it'll take more - or a relative fall in the competition's standards - to win design. Because it takes more to make a great overall design. This is a function of the competition presented, not the relative slickness of the competition's presentations. The CG height different is indeed transformative in a performance context (whilst it's unique); and there are plenty of dynamic events to show of the magnitude of this effect in where it can be demonstrated ceteris paribus. As it turned out (and as those judging broadly, anecdotally predicted) it couldn't, because the design was simply not as strong (and even compromised) in other areas, despite there being much that's a good base to move forwards from. There are no doubts that a development of this car could herald a genuine performance breakthrough in the competition.
Just a quick point here, although once again I am stressing that I am not arguing the result. ECU was behind Monash in the dynamics by less than 8 points (This will be less once the efficiency results are corrected). The only event that Monash was faster was Autocross. Monash had a better trained and more experienced driver team. Take out hit cones and ECU would have won the dynamic events. A fair comment given that most of the cones were hit by drivers competing in their first competition. Perhaps Monash would have gone faster in Endurance, but they had a few notable reliability concerns. Of the two most objective dynamic events (skidpan and Accel) ECU came out with a big margin to Monash.

Yes the ECU car was compromised in some areas, as was Monash. I don't think in this case that the dynamic event results confirm the statement you have made.

I will say thank you for your feedback. We have received no other feedback from the design team. The only thing that another judge mentioned to the guys was that the car needed more adjustability. A confusing comment given that every adjustment available for a conventional car could be made on the ECU car and then some (as evidenced by the difference between the skidpan and accel setup).

Kev