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It's worth noting I've been told recently from a current F1 aero engineer, that there is simply no one and nowhere in Australia that knows enough about vehicle aero to warrant going much farther down that path. Zoom mag style streamers and smoke don't really cut it.
Ben maybe it's worth sending the car overseas for aero work?

yeah totally agree.....I think a little time on a shaker rig and in a wind tunnel would work wonders....no doubt the os top running cars have been through the same years ago. wouldn't be cheap, but when are gaining seconds cheap?

and I wouldn't write off the taxis yet...they just need a little rework to suit the semis - it was clearly shown on the weekend that a soft semi has more grip than a supercar race slick. don't know if any of them will be back after the showing this year though which is a real shame.

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yeah totally agree.....I think a little time on a shaker rig and in a wind tunnel would work wonders....no doubt the os top running cars have been through the same years ago. wouldn't be cheap, but when are gaining seconds cheap?

and I wouldn't write off the taxis yet...they just need a little rework to suit the semis - it was clearly shown on the weekend that a soft semi has more grip than a supercar race slick. don't know if any of them will be back after the showing this year though which is a real shame.

I'd like to think they have more stones than that Duncan. Given some development time to suit the category i think they could go ok

and I wouldn't write off the taxis yet...they just need a little rework to suit the semis - it was clearly shown on the weekend that a soft semi has more grip than a supercar race slick. don't know if any of them will be back after the showing this year though which is a real shame.

Was chatting to Fernandez and he was having trouble due to not enough tyre width and not enough sidewall...They need like 345s on the rear and atleast 50 sidewall to be able to put the power down.

They sounded awesome out of turn 9 tho trying to get traction :(

Ben maybe it's worth sending the car overseas for aero work?

Always enjoy this vid;

that rig doesn't look overly expensive, I think there's a bit of a hole in the market for someone to set one up in Aus... unfortunately I can't think of a race series here that allows aero changes? Supertaxis don't have any freedom there do they?

bit hard to make money setting up a wind tunnel for just time attack cars... don't think the market is big enough to sustain it... surely somebody has more money than sense tho? :(

ahhh well the national and some of the state sports sedans guys would use it, and so would the Formula SAE, and so would holden and ford. And together that would book it out for about 1 month and then it would go broke :(

Right now I understand the only tunnel here is the half size one at Monash.

BTW was just talking to a friend who know the Cyber Evo owner well - apparently this was it's last event and it is being retired.

At least it went out on a high note....it won the world series.

so what you guyz is saying.... is that we need a tunnel... and we need some wind to blow through the tunnel at 300km/h.....

how can we dodgy one up??? i got some pretty heavy industrial fans.. they'll blow your hat off fairly well.... and my driveway is long and skinny... so maybe we fully enclose my driveway... and setup 3 or 4 industrial fans.. and we could watch it from the safety of my kitchen window...

or could we perhaps do it in a scale form??? take one of them fancy remote control cars... weight it up to scale the actual car.. and put it in a little wind tunnel to scale and see what happens??

if you had a 1/20 scale model... you'd only need a breeze of 60km/h

BTW was just talking to a friend who know the Cyber Evo owner well - apparently this was it's last event and it is being retired.

At least it went out on a high note....it won the world series.

Yeah its so sad to hear!! They need a sponsor :( The owner is a dentist

I told them we will send a Superlap Dvd over and would have to get a sponsor with there efforts here!!

I loved comparing these 2 laps! Such different cars and lines.

I think the drifting is fantastic but should be in 30 min sessions with constant action. No need to have a battles. Just entertain. They do it well. Especially Beau in the AE86.

If anyone has pics of my car please post em up. Thanks.

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