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Originally Posted by Adam43
It was last year, so no reason why this shouldn’t continue. It’s an area where there is some freedom so it’s an opportunity. It helps cooling, airflow round the side, the “seal” round the edge of the floor and the underfloor aero and the airflow over the side pods.
This year will be the 25th anniversary of the barge board (from my memory).
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That's interesting because in this article,
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/m...18-car-979229/, it mentions Mercedes experimenting with higher rake angles and running the front of the car low and the rear high, in order to create a form of ground effect using a combination of the front wing sealing the airflow and the diffuser performing better as more air can flow underneath it. If the barge boards can also be used to seal the edge of the floor and a longer wheel base is used, I would have thought that would help in producing this form of ground effect.