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Old 03-16-2012, 08:40 PM
Steve Cassani Steve Cassani is offline
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Somehow the forces that would result in understeer are carried by the rear suspension. I don't know how this works. My guess has the static weight balance well aft of the center of the car. Breaking into a corner will transfer weight forward but not past the center. Prompt acceleration will redistribute the weight back to the rear tires, preventing the anticipated imbalance with understeer from occurring. The car is very light, less than 1600 pounds. A four inch wide contact patch by two tires, with no more than say 300 pounds suspended at the front, would work to slow the car without losing lateral adhesion so long as breaking was not kept too late.

The delta wing first surfaced as an option for Indy car racing. The dynamic I'm guessing is more a problem in road courses and the design had to have worked on ovals as well. I can't get my head around the mechanics in either setting and I'm far more interested in seeing the delta proven than any of the 'advances' in suspension and design that have come up in the last two decades.
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