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I have been on for about 3 months now and I got some really good knowledge out of this site. So I got my monthly car and driver and I saw this car with these wings near the side mirrors.
At first I thought those wings were there to manage the flow over the side mirrors, as they provide drag and turbulence, but then I thought couldn't they just get really small side mirrors you see on other touring cars?
So then I thought maybe they need some downforce and front end stability. They put the wings more on the front of the car and lower. So I tend to think that the wings provide some downforce,
The only thing I can think of is that they want air in the cockpit or that the mini wings moves the air upwards and push it towards towards the back spoiler to provide downforce and back end stability?
Do they sound logical explanations or just more rookie talk and does anybody know the real reason behind it?
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IT is a Subaru WRX Sti and it is on a race track in the states, doing a 24 race
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.
Anyway, I've got the pics now, and I think those wings are just for show.
I doubt they give any performance increase whatsoever, and more likely contribute to drag.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
Its a Subaru Impreza (some sort of Mk3 Model...WRX?) Anyway, its some form of Touring Car, there are quite a few Scooby Touring cars.
Anyway, I suppose the only reasonable excuse is that they are used to condition airflow, not nessecarily around the wingmirrors but possibly to the rear wing?
Silence is golden when you don't know a good answer.
It is quite obvious it is a Japanese WRX, probably circuit/club car kitted out for a nighttime tarmac rally or somesuch. There are lots of these in Japan but you don't read much about them in Europe.
The little wings on the side are placed between the high pressure zone in front of the windscreen and the turbulent wheel airflow area. I expect they have something to do with that interaction, as the high pressure air infront of the windscreen will spill over the side of the car.
I can see it has diveplanes on the sides of the bumpers. Given that these are designed to induce a vortex over the front wheel, it is quite likely it is designed to interact with that. That said, I wouldn't have thought a sedan car like this would be quite fast enough to take advantage of this.
Of course they could also be just a placebo for the driver
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