 Following
the practice backflip on the Thursday before the race, the Mercedes
Benz CLR folklore talks of a panicked phone call to Williams F1's
Adrian Newey in order to cobble together a fix for the car. The
solution, which amounted to a twin set of diveplanes and a wheel well
leading edge gurney lip, supposedly increased front downforce by a
whopping 25%. But considering the power of diveplanes, 25% is a
massive amount, and simply speaks to a complete and fundamental
lack of downforce exerted by the CLR. |
Certainly
not the best image, but we take them how ever we can. Note that the
nose diffuser is relatively conventional, not as agressive as the raised
nose Toyota GT-One. The diffuser appears to be planar, transistioning from the
flat splitter to the flat diffuser kick across an edge.