Ferrari test with 'mid wing'.

[shiny side up!]

Originally posted by graves
looks a little strange to me. Seems to be no angle on it at all. Almost plain. Wotcha think?

I have heard speculation that that mid-wing doesn't create and downforce in and of itself, but that is a flow routing device that improves the flow to the rear wing (similar to the idea of turning vanes or barge boards)...

No idea if that is true or not, though... it's leading edge is a fairly big radius, I should think there is a fair amount of drag associated with that little winglet...



EDIT: Oops, I see Chappelli just posted the same thing...