Most pec...bizarre aerodynamics thread.

[Kiril Varbanov]

Front splitter at its best:


This is how you prepare for WRC - by stealing the bench from the park:


Huge, complex duffuser, over-exhaust-ed, with curly side skirts:


On the plus side:

[SiLo]

http://users.gtpla.net/forum/attachment ... jpg.84269/

My favourite car of all time for looks.

[Belatti]

What about group C?

covered rears





A diffuser that will never work?

[Belatti]

following group c...... group b

[Belatti]

Maki F1 car from 1974, almost 2 meters tall

[Giando]

These 1994 412T1 sidepods intakes were gorgeous but terribly unefficient...

[Giando]

And what about the magnificent B188 double airscoops?

[Giando]

This 1973 Ferrari snowplough was also quite interesting...

[wesley123]

What would this thread be without a GTP?


Absolutely love this car. Slow in a straight line, but so much downforce, it was incredible. There is fairly little on this car on the internet I believe.

And the Allard J2x-c

[xpensive]

Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, beats the Chaparral 2H in this department;

[Sebp]

Once again, the "Eagle Aircraft":

[xpensive]

Oh Jackie...

[1158]

Smokey Yunick's Hurst Floor Shifter Special

[Huntresa]

Why was it that they thought in the 60s that the wings must be 10 meters up in the air to be good and work ? Somehow it feels like they lacked rational thinkin back then, i mean air is air wheter its 10meters above the car or 10cm above it...

[rjsa]

Why was it that they thought in the 60s that the wings must be 10 meters up in the air to be good and work ? Somehow it feels like they lacked rational thinkin back then, i mean air is air wheter its 10meters above the car or 10cm above it...

Wings do work better on clean air flow, they just are in the positions they have now because rules say so. Where designers given the choice wings would still me mounted on meter long poles.