Crucial_Xtreme wrote:
I was merely saying that if the system works as I and Pup suspect, when the DRS opens, it allows air to bleed out via the endplate(s), but normally would be higher pressure.
This means that under normal (i.e. DRS not active) conditons, the air would have to go somewhere else, so I asked the question, where could you send relatively high pressure air to AID downforce rather than reduce downforce (drag).
To blow and increase downforce at the wings, I would think you'd either need a LOT of air blowing directly at the top surface (and there are no openings in bodywork that suggest such a solution, and really, how would you get MORE air to the top side of the wing than is already rushing at it just from driving along!), or slots blowing in parallel to the surface of the underside of the wing to use the Coanda effect to accelerate flow and increase downforce that way. The rules banning slots in the rear wing main plane and beam wing would also apply to slots aligned in this manner, I would think, so we can rule out any planes of the rear wing.
If we're ruling out the front wing being involved (which I am not, but it seems increasingly unlikely from the "evidence" we've seen so far), the diffuser would be the only other logical target in my opinion, as I sort of alluded to in my last post from yesterday.
