cheaters

When developing special use cars like this, manufacturers sometimes team with the department to field test a sampling of vehicles. I wouldn't be surprised if this were one of them. I recall when GM was developing turbos in the '70's, they distributed parts along with $100,000 to about 50 small capable race shops for them to tweak and play with. After a certain time, GM gathered all the parts and test information and investigated the strong points and failure modes looking for similarities and trends. 50 individual identical test projects being conducted simultaneously gets you a lot of information quickly.