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You might like to gawk at a modern F1 bargeboard, which have become astonishingly complicated recently.

https://external-preview.redd.it/bQ1FPpXTfqPTgZr82m7mFNIRYEx...

The point about steering angles was, if I recall correctly, McLaren's 2018 car's steering disrupting the airflow to the sidepod and bargeboard i.e. they got the placement slightly wrong so when the car was cornering the airflow would inst

One thing that's kind of amusing, is that if you ask older members of FSAE (student racing car competition) teams, nearly everyone has a story about either themselves or a competing team designing an aero part only to discover that the part was basically just for the designer's curiosity/ego than any real aerodynamic performance on the car.



It's amusing how human intuition about fluid flow is so often wrong. Hence the bulbous nose if ships.




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