{"id":77437,"date":"2013-04-04T12:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77437"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:40:59","slug":"aerodynamics-and-why-f1-teams-use-wind-tunnels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77437","title":{"rendered":"Aerodynamics And Why F1 Teams Use Wind Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Layman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Terms, aerodynamics is the study of how air in motion interacts with a solid object, usually focussing on how the object can be made <span id=\"itxthook1w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\" style=\"border-bottom: #0000ff 0.07em solid; padding-bottom: 1px !important; background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\">capable<\/span> of passing through the air with the least resistance. However, in F1, aerodynamics plays a bigger role, and the air flowing over the car\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body is taken advantage of and used to help other performance features, such as guiding air directly into the side engine ventilation pods and brake cooling ducts. Top teams employ a staff of up to a hundred people focusing purely on designing components that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll shave just hundredths of second from a lap time. If these components, combined with the overall shell design can knock just a couple of tenths of second off a lap, it may be enough to\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorward.com\/2013\/04\/aerodynamics-and-why-f1-teams-use-wind-tunnels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Layman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Terms, aerodynamics is the study of how air in motion interacts with a solid object, usually focussing on how the object can be made capable of passing through the air with the least resistance. However, in F1, aerodynamics plays a bigger role, and the air flowing over the car\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body is taken advantage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-formula-1-indy-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77438,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77437\/revisions\/77438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}