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Originally Posted by lucid
I didn't realize those are functional. Are they?
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Well, they're going to do something, that's for sure.
As far as the air over the road is concerned, the bottom of the wheel is at a standstill and the top is moving at twice the speed of the car. I'd think that a curved blade like that moving at 200mph or 300mph would definitely pull air out of the wheel well.
If you look at a picture of the front of a BT92, the air dam that the factory put in remains unchanged, even though the bumper wrapper is different. If Brabham didn't mess with the under-car airflow, they must have thought that BMW did a good job. It's clear that the Brabham engineers did spend a lot of time dealing with aerodynamics - looking at the rear, they changed the exhaust routing to the middle and put a flat panel ahead of the new rear diffuser to cover the hole left behind when the factory mufflers came out.
How's that CFD project coming along?