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Old 10-10-2014, 05:12 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I don't know the answer.The C-pillar winglets on the 599 race car helped with rear lift with no drag penalty.Their 'suctioned' diffuser DID reduce drag.
On the Fiorano,the aspirated C-pillars may accomplish the same thing as the race car.Not really a drag reduction per se,just not a drag penalty.
PS the development of the winglets required hundreds of hours of trial and error in the wind tunnel.At 200-hours,that might be $400,000 at Pininfarina.
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