Images
courtesy and copyright Mike
Ducharme and Michael
J. Fuller
Text
copyright
Michael
J. Fuller
Looking
underneath the car we can see how the Lola's undertray separates the air
left and right. The air is then ducted into the side pod where it
feeds the car's coolers. Note that the B98/10 did not have a rasied
nose. |
A
proper close up of the undertray. |
You
can see how the undertray is built, how the nose box integrates with the
undertray. Also you get a good view of how the air from underneath
the car (yellow arrow) is directed into the sidepod via the large diffuser.
Through the course of the 1998 season the cooling arrangement proved marginal.
Lola even admited as much when describing improvements for the follow on
B2K/10,
"The cooling system [for the B2K-10] will be developed to provide
increased water and oil cooling at elevated ambient temperatures for stock
block engines". |