Post by igothud on Aug 10, 2017 18:33:54 GMT
www.nascar.com/news-media/2017/08/10/chevrolet-unveils-camaro-zl1-monster-energy-race-car/
The things that make you go hmmmmm.... Wondering if Chevy is seeing something in the nose that Toyota did.
I always wonder about the Toyota front-end. It just seems like it is not as aerodynamic as the Chevy or the Ford... The more I look at it, it looks to me like a Toyota front-end would produce a bunch more downforce. Anyone remember when Myth-Busters set out to prove/disprove the idea, that on a truck, driving with the tailgate down was more efficient that driving with it up. They found out that it was better to leave it up... Basically they said it was because the pocket of air, in the bed the tailgate created, was more efficient that the Downforce/Drag the tailgate created when it was down. ANYWAY... those side scope... on the Toyota frontend seem like they'd just be huge pockets to catch air in... But the more I look at them, the more I see a extra surface for generating downforce. And not only that, but the air is dumped along the side of the car. After the Xfinity ran the new package at Indy... one of the big changes to the Xfinity package was the mandatory holes in the front so the air would dump out on the side of the car. Somewhere, I heard that it also effected the ability for the cars to side draft. So the questions start...
1) Dumping the air on the side of a car... If one manufacture is doing it and the others aren't (as much). Is there and advantage? Who has the advantage? My thoughts... Toyota
2) Is it harder to Side Draft a car that has a bigger air cushion of the side?
3) That new Chevy nose looks a lot like the Toyota nose... not as aerodynamic as they had with the SS. Are they seeing the same thing?
4) What about Ford? We going to see a Mustang in Cup?
5) Is NASCAR waiting on the teams to figure it out?
The things that make you go hmmmmm.... Wondering if Chevy is seeing something in the nose that Toyota did.
I always wonder about the Toyota front-end. It just seems like it is not as aerodynamic as the Chevy or the Ford... The more I look at it, it looks to me like a Toyota front-end would produce a bunch more downforce. Anyone remember when Myth-Busters set out to prove/disprove the idea, that on a truck, driving with the tailgate down was more efficient that driving with it up. They found out that it was better to leave it up... Basically they said it was because the pocket of air, in the bed the tailgate created, was more efficient that the Downforce/Drag the tailgate created when it was down. ANYWAY... those side scope... on the Toyota frontend seem like they'd just be huge pockets to catch air in... But the more I look at them, the more I see a extra surface for generating downforce. And not only that, but the air is dumped along the side of the car. After the Xfinity ran the new package at Indy... one of the big changes to the Xfinity package was the mandatory holes in the front so the air would dump out on the side of the car. Somewhere, I heard that it also effected the ability for the cars to side draft. So the questions start...
1) Dumping the air on the side of a car... If one manufacture is doing it and the others aren't (as much). Is there and advantage? Who has the advantage? My thoughts... Toyota
2) Is it harder to Side Draft a car that has a bigger air cushion of the side?
3) That new Chevy nose looks a lot like the Toyota nose... not as aerodynamic as they had with the SS. Are they seeing the same thing?
4) What about Ford? We going to see a Mustang in Cup?
5) Is NASCAR waiting on the teams to figure it out?
