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    Wing tips

    Jan 03, 2020 4 minutes
    By SIMON MCBEATH

    Our current project car is the 2019 UK Javelin Trackdays Sprint Series-winning Ariel Atom of owner/driver Stuart Drewell. Following engine power increases and fitting the wide span dual-element wings, car and driver set personal bests last season. In our previous issue we saw how the wings reversed the car’s inherent, forward-biased positive aerodynamic lift to produce, after a series of modifications and adjustments, a significant amount of total downforce with a well-balanced front to rear ratio very close to the car’s static front to rear weight distribution. As delivered to the wind tunnel though, the car actually), so attention during our session in the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel initially focussed on increasing front downforce.

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