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Originally Posted by Marbot
I think it was dropped because it only worked when the following car was sat directly behind the car in front. Once it had moved out to overtake.......
Most of the turbulence from the rear of an F1 car comes from the ability of the diffuser to work in conjunction with the rear wing. If you limit the diffuser (banning of double diffuser etc) and the rear wing (lift it higher up and make it smaller, which they have) you will have less turbulence. There are further limits on these items for 2013.
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I think it was dropped because it only worked when the following car was sat directly behind the car in front. Once it had moved out to overtake.......
That and they substituted the idea for the huge moveable front wings, allegedly believing they would help overtaking. The Overtaking Working Group's (OWG) wonderful (not) work.
The front wings are no longer moveable, but still huge and ugly and hampering overtaking!
DRS to be fair has been a massive step forward in offsetting the disadvantage caused by wake turbulence.