EL_XR6 wrote:Do you people remember when Red Bull tested this back in December?
Clearly they're testing something here in regards to the front wing flexing.
In the above image, all four cables appear to be very taut, which would suggest that the wing is indeed flexing under loading(provided they hadn't deliberately tightened them!).
EL_XR6 wrote:
In both of the above images, there APPEARS to be a considerable amount of slack in at least some of the cables. Again, we don't know whether this is due to the wing NOT being under load and thus not flexing OR if this is due to the engineers having loosened the cables.
EL_XR6 wrote:
But interestingly, in this image, The car is clearly travelling at some speed (>0 MPH at least) but the cables to the wing on the inside of the corner are slack, while the ones to the wing on the outside of the corner are taut.
I'm not sure that I can explain why this might be, but a suggestion would be that as the car experiences a degree of roll when cornering, this causes the wing on the outside of the corner to get nearer to the ground, thus increasing the efficiency of that half of the wing, resulting in greater loading, which in-turn results in increased bending of that wing. Perhaps this was what they were trying to tune with this test rig?? Does this sound logical?
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