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Old 09-10-2008, 08:52 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I looked at the PDF and found a cool picture of wheel skirt aero analysis :

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This is nice because it provides a starting point for others to "guess-timate" what the benefit would be of adding a wheel skirt.

Example: The "normal" mod of adding a rear wheel skirt adds an 0.006 Cd benefit.

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