The latter involved wind - tunnel experiments at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington,
where aerodynamicists struggled to develop a funnel that wouldn't get smut on passengers.
The driving position was, in fact, the RP1's ground zero moment, because that's
where the small but perfectly formed team of designers, engineers and ex-McLaren F1 team
aerodynamicists began their quest to deliver «the fastest track day car in the world by 2020».