Williams F1 Rear Wing Aerodynamics

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How the rear wing of a Formula 1 car works.

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  • @subeefan yeah, i understood that part, but the flow doesn't show anything about turbulence. The air is flowing upwards like from a fan, if the wing is moving forward their will be back pressure.

    12 year olds could design race cars if the wind flowed that simple.

    I'm just adding to the already posted idea that this video is absolutely useless. It's like posting a video of sunlight hitting the earth......I've learned so much!

    

  • Yeah. As air is fed under the car into the small gap between it and the ground it accelerates. This lowers its pressure. This in turn makes a bigger difference between the pressure of the air under the car and the atmospheric pressure above the car. Downforce

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  • @rapidracer221 my point was that that is painfully obvious!!!!! painfully obvious dude.

    painful.

  • @viasevenvai the air going up pushes the car into the floor, and also creates a low pressure area under the wing, which also helps push the car down

  • Mas agarre en las curvas !

  • @viasevenvai the arrows flowing downward is showing were the wing is producing downforce, hence the downward direction of the flowing arrows

  • anyone who has seen dust/snow/fog/smoke come off of a spoiler or body work knows it's NOT this simple.

    the vid shows air going up and then down arrows........!?

    please don't tell me this is what computers are made for.

  • I FINALLY UNDERSTAND! PERFECT VIDEO!

  • @bitsurfer0101 because skirts were banned in 1981.  Search "Gentlemen lift your skirts" here on youtube to find a video all about the banning of ground effects.

  • fake

  • even more pushing down.

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