I wonder whether you could use standard stick/3+3 saddle in the LIPO version if necessary?
The car is an interesting concept, will be good to see how it works out. There's so much variety, the Tamiya (Yok?) style which I'd call "standard belt", B44/BJ4 "standard shaft", then cars like Serpent/Aero/Atomic Carbon which seem to go for ultra narrow (never heard this explained but I assume its aiming for low polar moment of intertia), the pred which goes for ultra aerodynamic (not that I can work out how Aerodynamics make a diference at our speeds in standard air pressure
), and now the Schumacher which
looks (obviously don't know how they approached it) as though it was drivetrain comes first and narrow too, which from these pics makes it look to me like it may have a higher centre of gravity (although I see all the electrics are down low).
I'd be very tempted by the Schu next winter as it allows me to go LIPO racing, but still worried about the LIPO being exposed, and also landing on the shell could destroy the drive train!