The starting point is the rear. Create as much downforce as possible in the rear, then balance the car with the front, then adjust both together as needed to fit each track's optimum drag/downforce level.n smikle wrote:I said too much front and not enough rear down force.
Remember if you use a front wing that was balancing a 15,000 Newton downforce car, on a 12,000N downforce car, there is definitely going to be too much down-force at the front.
More DF is good yes, but not an unbalanced car. This helps to solve the unbalanced downforce acting on the cars now that they have lost the EBD. Of course teams have found other adjustments as well. The drag issue is not so important since the FW isn't a very high drag unit. Getting extra air to the rear is more important.wesley123 wrote:Why would you do that? I think recent years show pretty well that you can better have a lot of downforce than very little drag
Well only Ferrari managed to stuff that up last year.wesley123 wrote:Until you are too close to the ground and the wing will stall...
Maybe, it is easy to assume but it could still only be the stagnant area in front of the rear wheels. I might wait till mclaren put temperature sensitive stickers there first - though they might not want to due to getting reprimanded for breaking the spirit of the rules.Pup wrote:
So this does indeed look to me like the 'stagnant area' in front of the rear wheels is actually just baked on flowvis outlining the exhaust plume. And a fairly wide plume it is.
http://f1zoom.co.cc/?year=2012&race=jer ... =89&full=1n smikle wrote:Maybe, it is easy to assume but it could still only be the stagnant area in front of the rear wheels. I might wait till mclaren put temperature sensitive stickers there first - though they might not want to due to getting reprimanded for breaking the spirit of the rules.Pup wrote:
So this does indeed look to me like the 'stagnant area' in front of the rear wheels is actually just baked on flowvis outlining the exhaust plume. And a fairly wide plume it is.
How is the flo-viz applied?Crucial_Xtreme wrote:Another image not seen yet of the flo-vis '27
image via Khan_F1
CheersShrieker wrote:Good catch Blaze !!
I honestly don't see why people are seeing this as an achievement. Look at the rear wing – the aerofoil is about the same chord (in total) as the one placed just after the exhaust, and manages to direct the flow of air over it around a much steeper angle. Admittedly it has a slot in it to stop it stalling, but you know... a 30° or more bend in that chord is entirely possible.Shrieker wrote:Judging from the position of the temp. sticker in that pick, could McLaren be blowing the exhaust gases there or thereabouts ? With an exhaust pipe aimed 10 degrees upwards ?? That's some achievement if the assumption is correct...