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Old July 17th 06, 10:22 AM posted to rec.autos.simulators
Bob Loblaw
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Default May the best wind tunnel win


"Dave Henrie" > wrote in message
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> V_e_s_a > wrote in
> :
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>> Its gertting rediculous, no wonder some people go away from this
>> nonsense. Now when BMW established "twin towers", whats next?
>>
>> Place them under a ceiling, Bernie pulling strings.
>>
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>> Vesa
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> The twin towers are nothing new really. An American Indycarteam with a
> British designer tried something similar in the early 70's. The car had
> two small V shaped wings near the nose of the car and two larger wings
> protruding from where the airbox would be on a modern F1 at a similar
> angle
>
> The driver's didn't trust the concpet so the two rear wings were cut off
> and a standard rear wing was put in place. Here is one photo of the
> altered car, The front winglets are white and may not be easy to see
> against the yellow. The two rear dihedral wings would have angled up
> just behind the driver if they were still in place \ /
>
> http://www.oldracingcars.com/indy/
>
> dave henrie
>


Cool website. Thank you for sharing it. I will probably spend a lot of hours
reading it.


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