[WEC] Toyota LMP1 Discussion

[miatanut]

Originally Posted by Articus

I'm not sure whether you've been up to date on all of it. At the same time I definitely don't want to rehash anything. Just want to make sure your aware of how the wing works.

No one is really debating at this point. That isn't deflection in the common sense of it. The rear wing doesn't flex at all. The purpose to the ACO's test is to make sure the main plane does not flex. But Toyota redefined the script. Because the main plane does not flex at all on the LM version wing. It's attached to a clever mechanism that moves the wing into 1 of 2 positions. In neither of which does the wing flex itself.

There's are nice description of it all here: http://www.mulsannescorner.com/RCELeMans2014.html

Enjoy

I'm aware of that. It's a nicely presented theory. I don't see where it is saying any action of the driver is changing the wing angle. It is all based on deflection. A very clever use of deflection, but still deflection. In scruitineering, the specified loads get applied to the specified places and it passes the deflection test.