Project Mi2
The blue piece is a battery rail, not a belt guide. The battery bars but up against the blue piece the belt rides under it. There is no battery slots on this chassis to keep it as stiff as possible. There is a huge difference, when you cut battery slots you cut the carbon fibers and lose much of the chassis stiffness.
We had a similar chassis on the Mission and it was well worth the slighly higher C.G.
There are no immediate plans to produce this chassis, there are a lot of components required to do this switch. It's much more involved than a upper and lower deck, in a way we are stretching the enveloppe of conventional chassis design.
Check out the Dirt Trix site and find out more.
The tires on this car were new and uncut, we usually start at 58-59mm but we've run some awfully thin ones too.
The motor mount transfers torque to the chassis, the closer it is to the centerline the more the moment is reduced and the more neutral it should be left to right on the application of these forces.