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Old 10-24-2016, 06:58 AM   #2261 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Magajgfha View Post
If laminar flow has higher drag than turbulent one...............

Aerodynamic != low drag.
Yes, a car that has high downforce and high drag, but good L/D is aerodynamic.
I'm not convinced they used the phrase laminar flow correctly there, I think they just meant to say it's a low drag wing up front , unlike the rear one I might add.

I think Frank Lee is trying to apply some well accepted rules, but with improper results/conclusions.

The car body (like a wing) can be designed to be high lift, or high down-force, and the drag might even come out to near the same in either model.

The drag is what we might want to be concerned about, and as long as you are going teardrop instead of wedge your are going to be ahead of the game.

Remember this car's body is not an airplane wing, it is more like the fuselage.

Being a fuselage, the rules on tapering, body length, frontal area and overall drag are the dominating factors.

If your three basic choices for car body are 1.) neutral, 2.) high lift, 3.) high down-force then for a high performance car I think they choose correctly.

These three choices are relative theoretical extremes. The actual applied results will be something in between in real life.

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