Post some beautiful aerodynamic designs

[Kennett Ylitalo]

A counter thread

Post some beautiful aerodynamic designs. We are looking for packages that not just looked good but proved to be working solution. I'll start by setting an example how F1 car at it's finest can look like.

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McLaren MP4/7A​

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The layout of this car is so simple and clean, there is nothing to take off or to add. The kind of car that defined me what Formula 1 car is.

 

[William Levesque]

These 2 come to mind...

Lotus 49

Ferrari 126 C2

Of course there are others but yeah

 

[Hampus Andersson]

RB7

RB6

And in my opinion the most beautiful F1 car ever designed. The last of the V12 powered monsters.
The sound beats everything i´ve ever heard as well.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Sick picture!

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

And in my opinion the most beautiful F1 car ever designed. The last of the V12 powered monsters.
The sound beats everything i´ve ever heard as well.

That Ferrari is just so beautiful..

EDIT: Digged up more photos and wiki-link, the machine deserves, no, demands it.

Ferrari 412T​

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EDIT: Didn't know there was two versions of 412T, low nose and the better looking higher nose.. It all started there.. Changed the middle picture to a correct model.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Not bad either, just had to post it since it got posted to the opposite thread.. It looked dated but the lack of sponsors and the sheer awesomeness of the car make it fit here perfectly.​

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Brawn BGP 001​

EDIT: added some pictures

 

[Kurt Funnekotter]

Ahhh....that Brawn was so clean and crisp, loved it.

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

A footnote to Brawn, this is what the car looked last season. I put this mainly because the way that sharp front flows to frontwing is a work of art. the bumb that follows in the chassis gives some clues to the ridiculous 2012 Caterham. Keeping in mind that they added aircanals to that shape, so that fronthole air was channeled back to frontwings: To stall the wing, like an F-Duct but since it was stationary design and driver couldn't control it, it was legal.. And it activated only after some airspeed had been aquired, that's some awesome fluid dynamics there..I think this idea is still legal, it's pure aerodynamic design...

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Yup it works by pressure so 100% legal. Brilliant piece of engineering i have to say.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Just had to post a picture of the diffuser of the 412T Sooo good looking!!

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

And i think that Ferrari was the first to use open nose. For cooling purposes if i remember correctly.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

And i think that Ferrari was the first to use open nose. For cooling purposes if i remember correctly.

Had no idea about that, thanks!
By open nose i assume you mean the small vent at the front of the nose cone?

RBR did not have it, theirs was positioned under the nosecone Newey...

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Why did Brawn test with grooved tyres?

 

[Jason Quinn]

Why did Brawn test with grooved tyres?

They look like wets to me.

Jason

 

[ENDR]

I don't think so - wet tyres are supposed to move the water away, that's why they have diagonal grooves.
Parallel grooves make sense only on dry tyres.

 

[Mark Birney]

They are wets. They are just moving at such a high speed that the camera's shutter couldn't catch the movement of the horizontal grooves.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

If you look closely you can actually see the horizontal treads but it´s very blurry.

Here´s an image of the actual tire,

I´ll see if i can find a higher res image to compare with the Pirelli tire.

In the meantime here´s a good pic of the Pirelli Full Wets.

Slightly bigger image,

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Oops, sorry just read this:

We are looking for packages that not just looked good but proved to be working solution.

In theory it all worked on the Tyrrell. Does that count too?

 

[Kennett Ylitalo]

Lol, if you honestly find that beautiful then it's in the right thread.. Personally, not pretty..