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Originally Posted by orange4boy
I found a shot that shows a bit of the belly pan on the T-32 The salient question on this car is whether the air would reattach behind the cockpit.
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The salient question to me is, how did anyone manage to drive that thing at racing speeds? Slab sides, full belly pan with no splitter or air dam to limit under-car airflow (a mistake that was still being made in race car design as late as the 1960's), those have to be a recipe for getting pushed around in all the wrong ways by the airstream. Couple that with an incredibly short wheelbase and -- well, let's just say my leather helmet goes off to anyone who drove that at racing speed.
And lest anyone think those speeds were low:
