I'll chime in to say their "Enterprise Linux" support is (or at least WAS in 2015) merely a wine wrapper. That said, I strongly dislike ESRI and would recommend any number of open source alternatives.
My assumption is that you'd need to actually fold these to work and that by selecting the inputs and laying them flat, the output naturally also lays flat. If there is a way to properly read them via the diagrams I'd love to know though.
I wonder if they were concerned about their deg with softs since Silverstone is typically a high deg track. Maybe they didn't do any long runs in FP and didn't have the data to show that they could last 20+ laps.
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