Joost:
Whoopsy:

I know what the press release said. I actually don't mind the look. 

But there is this little detail called the fulcrum effect. The wing mount is cantilevered out, with downforce applied at one end, what happens to the other end? A force is applied to lift that end. Simple physics. 

 

You mean the front of the struts? Or the front of the car?
If the first: easily solved by adding som carbon fibres... CFRP is easier to strengthen specifically for tension than for compression.
If the second; well, make the front lip a bit longer so the effect of that gets larger too... Smiley

 

Well yes that strut mount will be under great stress, be it compression or tension depending on the design. But then again when that mount is rigid as if it's a one piece with the body, then the whole front of the car will get lifted........

That lift will be more than a conventional mounted wing, as in the normal wing the rear get squished down by the downforce but there is no rotating force to lift the front even more. 


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