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You might like to gawk at a modern F1 bargeboard, which have become astonishingly complicated recently. https://external-preview.redd.it/bQ1FPpXTfqPTgZr82m7mFN
by mhh__ 5y ago
You might like to gawk at a modern F1 bargeboard, which have become astonishingly complicated recently.
https://external-preview.redd.it/bQ1FPpXTfqPTgZr82m7mFNIRYEx9T-F1uX2VgczK0A0.jpg?auto=webp&s=feec6a26471375d1fbcd582ab509307d39ff7a60 https://external-preview.redd.it/bQ1FPpXTfqPTgZr82m7mFNIRYEx...
The point about steering angles was, if I recall correctly, McLaren's 2018 car's steering disrupting the airflow to the sidepod and bargeboard i.e. they got the placement slightly wrong so when the car was cornering the airflow would inst
One thing that's kind of amusing, is that if you ask older members of FSAE (student racing car competition) teams, nearly everyone has a story about either themselves or a competing team designing an aero part only to discover that the part was basically just for the designer's curiosity/ego than any real aerodynamic performance on the car.
- WalterBright 5y agoIt's amusing how human intuition about fluid flow is so often wrong. Hence the bulbous nose if ships.