What "no wings on the concept images" probably means is "active wings". Being able to have wings that generate a huge amount of downforce when cornering and no drag when accelerating will be a great advantage in comparison with F1, as well as venturi tunnels, and if I'm not mistaken active aero can also be used on the floor, AFAIK the LaFerrari uses it.SR71 wrote:You blow the air behind you when you have a race car because you can, doesn't mean it's the only place to blow air.DiogoBrand wrote:Fans hill help creating more downforce which is basically vertical pressure on the contact patches. You still need rubber able to cope with that pressure in order to convert that downforce into cornering speed.
IMO the secret will be in tyre width, since there's a limit of pressure the rubber can withstand, you can lower that pressure by increasing the area on which the force is distributed.
As for technologies banned in F1 that will be used on the car, my guess is active suspension rather than fans. For some reason I don't think "blowing stuff from the road on whoever comes behind you" as a very marketable concept.
You can also slow the air down.
Active suspension is a given on hyper and supercars and becoming standard on most luxury cars. You're suggesting they are hinging F1 level performance on that? I dont think so. I do agree with you the tires will probably be something new.
There are no wings on the launch poster sketches. Historically speaking sketches like that reference production intent. Again, I'd imagine this project is well into development and beyond concept phase. The timeline suggests this - cars take years.
No wings means fans. If you only allowed the fans to run when the GPS recognized a race track you could handle debris...
Every hypercar sold has track modes, Bugatti has a special key for top speed, how is this simple multi-mode principal going over so many peoples heads? It's VERY fast if you want to goto the grocery store. It's UN-GODLY fast if you put it in track mode.
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I'm not sure how much, but being able to cover the wheels also has a large effect on drag. If I'm not mistaken, F1 and road cars have an average drag coeff of around 1.0 and 0.3, respectively.