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Old 12-04-2014, 07:59 AM
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Thanks for sharing. My undergraduate degree is in Aerospace Engineering so this all felt very familiar to me. What the flow pictures reminded me is that even minor breaks or obstructions in the smooth flow of the air can have a huge effect. Thus, a car as fundamentally un-aerodynamic as the Cobra is not well suited for very high speeds. .... Morris mitigated a lot of the Cobra's aero shortcomings in his car, but at the cost of considerably higher weight. I suppose that if you want to run on a track where top end speed is critical to success, that is the way to go.
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