New Formula E aero
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- 18th July 2016, 22:31 at 10:31 pm #325130Keith CollantineKeymaster
Interesting new aero being tested by Formula E:
New whiskers on the #m3electro. @MahindraRacing @FIAformulaE One section needs to be filled……….. pic.twitter.com/GipslE4DGg
— Dilbagh Gill (@dilbagh_gill) July 18, 2016
19th July 2016, 0:07 at 12:07 am #325131Uzair SyedParticipantI hope that they don’t actually use this for next season. The current Formula E chassis looks nice to me. Much better looking than the current F1 cars with the ugly finger noses. No need to ruin it with this!
19th July 2016, 9:41 at 9:41 am #325132andae23ParticipantPretty odd why they would put a wing there, it’s not a place where you would want to produce downforce because the rest of the car (particularly the rear wing) will be disturbed by it. I guess the only benefit is that the vortex generated by the top of that huge wheel fence is gone, but that could be used to their advantage. This looks to me like an aesthetic design.
25th July 2016, 12:55 at 12:55 pm #325630JeanrienParticipant@andae23 Very similar to the design for roborace cars where they aim to generate the most part of downforce from ‘the floor and active bodyparts’ to quote them.
The only option I could see is making both cars (Formula E et roborace’s cars) look alike and exploiting and eventual ‘bi-plane effect’. You have in a simple way twice the surface to generate downforce and the surface is more effective by being duplicated.
28th July 2016, 12:21 at 12:21 pm #325820Keith CollantineKeymasterFormula E has put out some images showing how the revised cars will look:
28th July 2016, 12:39 at 12:39 pm #325821andae23ParticipantNo mention of any aerodynamic benefits in the press release, so it’s indeed just a cosmetic change.
@jeanrien It’s actually the opposite: two wings placed on top of each other negatively influence each other (the pressure differences become less extreme, so there is a smaller net force), so I doubt it’s a positive change.28th July 2016, 15:03 at 3:03 pm #325825Craig WoollardParticipantFE cars don’t generate masses of downforce anyhow so I doubt it will change much there. However what I do hope will change is the strength of the wing as a whole. Too frequently last season wings were broken. They almost seemed to shatter at the sight of a bollard. As for aesthetics, I actually quite like the look of it personally.
28th July 2016, 15:07 at 3:07 pm #325826JeanrienParticipant@andae23 Indeed bad memory from my part, lift is less effective per surface unit for a biplane than a single plane but the total lift is greater because of the augmentation of the surface at equal span which I thought might present an interest. But it seems it was not what they were after anyway…
It’s quite a nice addition, at least it doesn’t seem to have two large bulk hanging on both side of the front wing and it’s a more homogeneous entity.
28th July 2016, 15:25 at 3:25 pm #325845sam3110ParticipantLooks a bit closer to the Indycar chassis compared to before, I personally like the bi wings on the front
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