To prepare, Rimac worked with Costa on a three-day test program at Pula Airport, Croatia. The Nevera R — the fastest accelerating car ever built — and the Nevera hypercar were used as high-precision moving reference platforms, giving Costa a real-world moving surface against which to rehearse the cognitive and physical demands of landing almost completely blind on a moving target.The seat was molded precisely to Costa’s body shape and calibrated to his performance requirements: maximum stability, optimal control feedback, and reduced fatigue during extreme maneuvers. In a discipline where pilot input must be precise to within fractions of a second, the seat represents a meaningful engineering contribution, and, as far as is known, the first application of this level of precision seat engineering in a race aircraft.