davecooper wrote:I believe however, that there is no interest in ridding cars of wings as this would loose advertising (revenue) space and the public would not think they looked like real racing cars.
You can have a big wing that looks like real racing wing and gives plenty of advertising space, but doesn't create downforce at all. I have some experience with wings, probably nothing like F1 teams though, and I've noticed that something that looks good, doesn't necessarily do a thing. Except drag, that's always easy to create.
My point is that you can get the looks without the effect, if wanted and needed.
Just look at todays tuning road cars. Huge wings bolted to sheet metal. Most look like they could work, but if they actually made any real downforce at any speed, the first thing they'd do is dent the body.
