Indeed, this article offers nothing new about the tunnel.
Considering the breadcrumbs that the author admitted to finding online, I'm realizing that the state of investigative reporting is much worse off than I previously assumed.
It's not a new idea. Teams including Audi's Le Mans squad use it. Teams have rented the Shuttle landing facility at Cape Canaveral to do the same thing. The advantage of the Tunnel is there are less variables to contend with such as things like wind.