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I've been thinking about the mirrors. I agree with others that I don't think they are going to be powerful enough to deflect air into the top sidepod openings.
Think about what part of the car all the teams try to get the best quality airflow to. The diffuser and the rear floor. Could the mirrors be aiming at deflecting the flow of air over the top of the sidepod to somehow increase airflow to the rear floor or improve the quality of the existing airflow to the rear floor?
Those top sidepod openings must have a massive effect on the airflow over the sidepod. Maybe the mirror design is intended to somehow reduce the impact of that.
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To me the mirrors do look like they have an inlet on them, but I'm yet to see a good photo of the front (glass) side of the mirror, so for the moment, if it is a duct then I'm not sure where the air actually goes.
The mirror glass itself has a minumum dimension regulation to it and I wouldn't have thought they'd want the mirror body to be much larger than that dimension.
To me the mirrors do look like they have an inlet on them, but I'm yet to see a good photo of the front (glass) side of the mirror, so for the moment, if it is a duct then I'm not sure where the air actually goes.
The mirror glass itself has a minumum dimension regulation to it and I wouldn't have thought they'd want the mirror body to be much larger than that dimension.
Seems pretty normal to me. There is a narrow gap below the glass and the upper one, if there is one at all, cannot be seen from this perspective because the upper edge of the mirror is curved down. I would have thought the gaps would be bigger.