Great pic. Crazy to think both the WEC (which I still think of as a small car) and the F1 car have nearly the same wheelbase, and the F1 car with front wing is nearly as long as the Ranger! Mentally, I'm still anchoring to my first impressions of seeing a car wheeled past me in the pit lane, and how low and narrow they seemed (in 2012).
Apparently there's heaps of empty space in the gearbox casing, which they use to make the rear floor area bigger (and balance out the long nose I guess). The current car's nose does look super long.
Probably very difficult with the requirement for the driver to be fully behind the front axle
If only we could get rid of these pesky drivers, the car could be much smaller!