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Old 01-25-2023, 01:30 AM   #4126 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
0.17? Imagine what it could do with fender skirts.

It looks like the concept car's retractable box cavity has been reduced to the diffuser.
They said their engineer team wasn’t allowed to do rear wheel skirts. So that’s why the wheels are big, the tires are flush with the flat hubcaps, the trailing edge is smaller, and wheel arches are small. They claimed in some video that they did such a good job, that wheel skirts wouldn’t have made a diff. They also claimed they have the lowest drag side mirrors ever made too and that it barely even affects their total overall drag

So by guessing from what the engineers said, doing a full fender skirt and removing mirrors would only drop the cd by 0.005
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