shelly wrote:@horse: I think it is the other way round: it is mclaren relying on the snowplough to develop flow features. High nosed car do not have one (maybe force india had snowplough last year?).
But I agree with you on that is a bit more complicated than the higher the better. It would be nice to see what structrures does the snowplough develop and how they interact with the other parts of the car
+1,
The higher noses provide more potential to speed up the flow around the side pods because there a bigger volume of it coming through.
The low nose with front splitter (snow plough) probably does something similar through;
1) diverting airflow to the barge boards
2) creating a low pressure under the nose to pull air over the wing and onto the splitter.
Would love to see some flow diagrams that compares the two concepts