05-09-2008, 01:37 AM
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75/Milano manuals for all
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Melbourne Australia
Posts: 1,574
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G'Day Mats,
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Originally Posted by BigSwede
Craig: The drag/downforce rule always applies, but in this specific application we actually lower the drag a lot by adding a flat floor. That alone will give you a big slash in laptimes.
So in this case it would be more like smoothing the body then to actually add a piece to aid downforce. Downforce is a nice free lunch when smoothing the floor so to say.
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Originally Posted by BigSwede
Also, using a wind tunnel to simulate the floor aero is very difficult because the car is not actually moving realtive to the floor, there are ways to simulate that with rolling belts
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I forgot that bit 
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