Images
copyright Pat Michl,
Will Vasser, and Michael
J. Fuller
Text
copyright Michael
J. Fuller
Looking
up into the '07 Porsche's front splitter/diffuser. The front wheel
is open to the diffuser and it is understood that the spinning wheel helps
draw air into the diffuser. Looking to the foreground you can see
the truncated nature of the radiator inlet whereby it is wider at it's
top than bottom providing a smoother exit for the diffuser exhaust. |
Seen
here in 2008, note the addition (compared to the Houston 2007 image above)
of vertical splitters that connect from the secondary horizontal splitter
to the bottom of the monocoque and direct air outboard. |
Of
course this shot leaves nothing to the imagination. Courtesy Penske
Racing... |
The
Jabroc outer splitter skid plates extend inboard horizontally into the
splitter's regulation stepped (50 mm) inlet and is chamfered to form an
edge that presumably sheds a vortex. |
The
inboard extension of the Jabroc skidplate. Note the single outer
strake is not normal (90°) to the surface. |
Note this outboard addition, Sebring 2008. |
A close up of the out board addition, Petit 2008. |