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10 May 2011, 18:09 (Ref:2878292) | #1 | ||
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There's quite a bit of discussion in other threads about this team, I think they deserve their own thread now.
It looks like this team is really going places and they certainly don't seem short on the Euros compared to their petrol rivals. Could they possibly surprise us all with a top petrol finish at Le Mans? An interesting place to start a thread is on the techinical developments the team has made to their Pescarolos. An Aston thread has turned into OAK discussion and BRG posted this: Quote:
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10 May 2011, 20:20 (Ref:2878385) | #3 | |
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The crash of Matthieu Lahaye from the on-board camera of Elton Julian in the Genoa Racing FLM:
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It's a very clever rules workaround. Regulations mandate a 20mm rear wing flap gurney. This gurney must be perpendicular to a line that connects the highest point of the wing at the leading edge to the trailing edge. By locally increasing the height through what are huge bumps, the line goes nose up which in turn backs the gurney out. There's probably some loss from the bumps, but I'm guessing it's more than made up for by the backed out gurney. Here's an image I sketched up:
http://twitpic.com/4ryfzg All the talk about whales and vorticies off the tops of the bump are way off the mark. This is a simply (though very neat) rules work around. |
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One bump through the entire section would cause a rather large flow separation across the entire length of the top side of the flap (for instance if you extruded the red X-section in my image). You can't just have a singular bump as the regulation speaks specifically to the cross section. Thus with a single bump in the middle the cross section only changes at that point and only at that point could you back the gurney out. Using multiple bumps allows the air through and mitigates the flow separation over the every-other bumps.
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13 May 2011, 08:40 (Ref:2879750) | #9 | ||
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Whose does the aero work for OAK please Mike ? thats clever stuff .
Thanks for the explanation . |
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OAK Racing and its constructor department, Onroak Automotive, present the 2012 OAK-Pescarolo LMP2
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20 Dec 2011, 07:12 (Ref:3002119) | #13 | |
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http://www.mulsannescorner.com/newsnov11.html points out some of the aero updates.
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20 Dec 2011, 09:45 (Ref:3002146) | #14 | ||
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God , I hope its not baby blue again !!!
Love to see them return to their daydlo pink/green libery . |
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unbelievable. looks like another aco failure. they just cant get it right
all that development.... (its something like the reduced rear wings from 2009-. safer, slower, reduced costs... HAH!) |
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I fail to see which failure you are referring to. The goal of the "big honking fin" and now the "big honking holes" is to improve safety (i.e., reduce the chance of car flipping over), not to reduce costs. Judging from the two Audi crashes in Le Mans this year, the fin does as intended.
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21 Dec 2011, 15:08 (Ref:3002732) | #18 | |
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im not talking about the improved safety, just the "cost-capped" lmp2 formula vs the holes. it seems like oak developed the car and yet they gained no advantage. same as the wings (in 2009): money goes into development to gain back the df they lost with the reduced wing. And despite these they are talking about reducing costs in lmp2
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Indeed, rules and rules stability have been an issue with the ACO for a time now. These changes just end up costing money.
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FYI. The brochure of the 2012 Oak-Pescarolo LMP2 includes additional pictures of the computer model and a picture from windtunnel model:
http://www.oak-racing.com/wp-content...tation-Net.pdf |
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30 Dec 2011, 13:24 (Ref:3005521) | #22 | ||
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the car looks awesome in front view. I hope many teams will use this chassis next year.Oak Racing, HS Technik, Conquest Racing and maybe United autosport and Black Swan as well. Last edited by lms; 30 Dec 2011 at 13:39. |
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30 Dec 2011, 16:24 (Ref:3005576) | #24 | ||
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Yaknow , OAK havent done a bad job on that fin ..... not a bad lookin car at all . And the holes are fine with me .
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Mariantic reports that the cars will be branded as Morgans. Says its in the print edition of Autosport.
Great news if they are, so long as their Green |
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