volarchico wrote:So do all the F1 teams just have a thing for oil painting? I think Flow vis has a place in testing, otherwise they wouldn't waste their time with it. Sometimes living in a lab or wind tunnel environment where the search for ever increasing accuracy skews a person's perspective until they forget that reality is out there and reality is not clean, accurate, or repeatable. Not every test needs to be precise to the 4th decimal to give useful information or to validate concepts.
How often is this seen when a car loses a bit of front wing endplate or a strake from the diffuser during the race and continues to lap at the same pace? Losing that piece should adversely affect the aero, but it doesn't within the error bounds that are the reality of a race.
This just got old.
