June 25, 2010

How McLaren’s F-Ducts Work

Filed under: The Sporting Life — cipher @ 8:41 pm

Fascinating article in Racecar Engineering that I just stumbled upon. I know that there are enough F1 addicts around here to appreciate this:

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/articles/f1/449813/f-ducts-how-do-they-work.html

Now how Red Bull and Ferrari have managed to work this into their designs is an unanswered question. Martin Brundle has a good animation showing how the folks at the Beeb think this is working:

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