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> The cars, present at the respective facilities of the eight participating teams, were remotely controlled from the race venue in Toulouse.

> Along with its unique vehicles, what made the race special was the venue, a giant spherical structure called La Boule. Located in the CEMES (Centre d’Élaboration de Matériaux et d’Etudes Structurales) campus, it has a diameter of 25 meters and housed the world’s largest electron microscope at the beginning of the 1960s.

So just to get it right, the "venue" is just the place where the races are coordinated, but otherwise was only chosen for symbolic/historic significance. The actual physical races are taking place in the labs of the participating teams. Is that correct?

So each team has its own "race track", tunneling microscope, etc as well?




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