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Old July 17th 06, 10:29 PM posted to rec.autos.simulators
sammy
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Default May the best wind tunnel win

Bob Loblaw wrote:
> "Dave Henrie" > wrote in message
> . 97.136...
>> V_e_s_a > wrote in
>> :
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Vesa
>>>

>> 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.
>
>


Ditto... I will definitely kill a few days at work with it
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