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Old 03-14-2012, 11:34 PM
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Interesting stuff.

I believe Mercedes have found a way, by creating a duct through the endplate. When DRS is closed, the flap and the plate it attaches to is in a nearly vertical position. When DRS opens, the area the flap initially covered is exposed. If this area featured an opening that lead into a duct inside the endplate, when DRS opened the high pressure above the wing would force flow through the duct. With this duct then routed through the car to the front wing, when DRS is open the FDFW would be blown and stall in unison with the rear wing. Clearly when DRS closes the duct would be closed off and the duct would stop blowing the FDFW, restoring front and rear downforce.
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http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2012/0...rear-wing-drs/
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leave it to f1 engineers to figure out how to get air to move from the rear of the chassie forward to the front wing wile the car is traveling at speed. only driver activated f ducts are banded and the merc is a passive system which whiting has deemed legal. i'm still trying to wrap my head around this moving air back to front.
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Lotus seems to be protesting Mercedes' use of this. We'll see how they rule. It's certainly given mercedes a boost.
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In case anyone missed this, http://www.formula1.com/news/technic...2/865/949.html
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