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Originally Posted by Christ
...the seating arrangement probably has the driver about as close to laying down as you can comfortably get...
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Racer comfort is different from street comfort. I'm sure everyone concerned--including the drivers--was more interested in the records than in comfort.
One thing that's missing in all the promo pieces (that I've found) is pics with a driver inside, and all the driving videos are edited to obscure the driver. The car has 7/8 the frontal area of the standard Opel Speedster and it has all come out of the cockpit. After a couple of hours in the driver's seat going round and round a racetrack, a GT-40 would feel like a limo. But I want one anyway.
Christ wrote...
> I might be pissing in the wind here, but I thought you could get away with
> almost any size model as long as it was scaled properly and proportionate
> to the full-size chassis?
Pissing in the wind isn't too bad if you do it downwind. I've always wondered why that phrase is never qualified, e.g. "...into a quartering headwind."
Re the model size, my background (such as it is) is small aircraft design and all my testing has been full scale. I'm not going to have any measuring equipment, I'm going to be limited to tufts and maybe oils, I'm looking for how simple it can be and still keep flow attached back to the tail. I'm suspecting the front half will be fairly easy, but from the cockpit back will be challenging. If I can get most of the failures out of the way with quarter scale models, that would sure be a time saver.
PS--my car in the first post? It's 41 inches tall with 5" of ground clearance.