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Originally Posted by yco
nothing on any car is "rigid" there is nothing like infinite rigidity in physics..
Merc's fin vibrates, Red Bull's rear wing bends.. lets separate them first..
and even if we assume your conspiracy is right.. bending rear wing gives a vast amount of advantage.. you dont need to be an aerodynamicist to know this..
yes i agree with one part that, they re ahead of time..
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It's not a consipracy.
Seeing something flapping around and not understanding it's true purpose is a limitation to us.
Yes we can understand the RB wing sagging (or at least we think we can). That doesn't mean we can understand the merc fin flapping.
I can think of a dozen reasons for that finn to flap (maybe it creates a turbulance that hits the wing just at a certain spot, maybe it creates a turbulance that just misses the wing at a certain spot. Maybe it steers a turbulance in a corner to guide it to one side or maybe it steers the turbulance to guide it to the other side.
Whatever it does, it'll probably be way to complicated to understand its exact workings for any of us.
At the point that you start using relativation to the workings of an F1 car (like: "you dont need to be an aerodynamicist to know this" or "nothing on any car is "rigid" there is nothing like infinite rigidity in physics.. "), you are way way out of your leage claiming to understand the workings of an F1 car.
None of us understands it.
I've worked 3 times in a windtunnel. Did some CFD modelling (Euler and Navier Stokes), but I don't presume to understand. Not even that RB sagging wing. In reality modelling and testing that effect will be way way to complicated for us. Even designing a non sagging wing is way to complicated for us.
I'm pretty sure that if we would design a sagging wing, it would still be the worst performing wing in the field. By a mile.
Saying something like "nothing on any car is "rigid" there is nothing like infinite rigidity in physics.." has no added value in this discussion. It's like saying water is wet. Stating the obvious.