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Old 04-25-2021, 05:46 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vekke View Post
Interesting pics but the explanations are at the typically quite confused level of so many similar websites.

The amount of air flowing under the car is small, due to the presence of the front splitter in all cars, for what air flows faster there. By Bernoulli, this means lower pressure, and this is how downforce is generated, by the pressure difference with the high pressure above the car, caused by the considerable bigger amount of air which is forced to flow over the car (as we already saw in a previous post on Underbody aerodynamics).

At least two major mistakes... in just the second paragraph.
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