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Hey Tadge -

I got to spend a lot of time at the Carlisle show back in August, crawling through the various engineering displays that the team brought down from MI. Thank you for that, as always. I heard you say this a few times during interviews, and even on the fairgrounds, "It turned out even better than we expected." Was there an "Ah HA!" moment? A point in time, or a development cycle that happened, where you and the team just knew you'd got it? Can you share that with us, in allowable details?

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Hey gang -

Thanks for the interesting C8 questions so far. I'm going to send this high-level one to Tadge first because I have a hunch that several of the others will be answered as more interviews are done, more magazines talk about the car, more reviews, etc. Once we hit November, we'll have likely seen all of the interviews/reviews/etc and we'll figure out which question to send next.
 




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