2018 aero developments

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Just_a_fan
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What's wrong with the geometry of those VGs? And how can you tell they're wrong from a photo when the teams have spent hours in CFD / wind tunnel playing with them before mounting them on the car?
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godlameroso
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They're intended to interact with the rear tire, the fact they don't race them means they're not having the intended results, and this serves as more or less a correlation study for further development.
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Your limited CFD and windtunnel time is better off going into more important/long lead time parts than it is something you can just roughly guess what you want it to do, 3D print some in a day and just stick 'em on the car to see what it does in practice.

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