Blast from the past
The Reynard SF79 was one of the best FF2000 cars ever made and Paul Allen, the owner of our test example, has been making regular podium visits in historic races with his. We saw in the previous issue that the car arrived at the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel with a fairly well-balanced aero set-up, supporting the owner’s seat-of-the-pants assessment. Having crunched some of the numbers from our session we speculated that drag might actually be a more important performance parameter than downforce, and this tallied with Allen’s desire to improve end-of-straight speed with drag reduction. A.
