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Title: F1 Technical
Post by: Dean Los Angeles on November 15, 2013, 02:55:59 PM

Excellent views of the Red Bull F1 cars. Looking at the pictures I wonder on a lot of them "what the hell am I looking at?"
http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/red-bull-rb9/ (http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/red-bull-rb9/)

Does your front wing look like this?
(http://www.racecar-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/uprb9io.jpg)

Millions of dollars on computational flow dynamics (CFD), thousands of hours in the wind tunnel, and we still validate with on-track testing. The white object is measuring the airflow over the rear diffuser.
(http://www.racecar-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/uprb9u.jpg)
And on track testing with flow visualization paint.
(http://www.racecar-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/uprb92.jpg)
A link to Flow-Viz paint
http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/flow_viz_paint.html (http://www.formula1-dictionary.net/flow_viz_paint.html)

Title: Re: F1 Technical
Post by: jl222 on November 15, 2013, 04:43:35 PM

  Thanks Dean...I see what you mean :-)


            JL222

Title: Re: F1 Technical
Post by: Glen on November 15, 2013, 05:53:49 PM

The SCTA roadster committee would go nuts with these. :cheers:

Title: Re: F1 Technical
Post by: RansomT on November 15, 2013, 06:29:21 PM

Because there is a difference between the air flow in a straight line and around the curve.   :-D

Title: Re: F1 Technical
Post by: SaltRat on November 25, 2013, 11:05:17 AM

thanks for posting this - VERY interesting . . . and expensive!

Title: Re: F1 Technical
Post by: johnneilson on November 27, 2013, 08:20:00 PM

Look at the inclination of the pitot rake.
The air stream is moving up at quite an angle.