The Engineering Marvel: Formula 1 Diffuser Wheels

Previously

…None of it was glamorous. All of it was necessary. And one question remained, the question that would follow them from the air-conditioned quiet of the facility to a real circuit, where the air would be dirty with the wake of other cars, heated by brake ducts, and stirred by a driver fighting for position. The wind tunnel had done what a good tool should do: it had made clear what was not yet known. The vortex could hold. The structure needed attention. And the only way to learn how the wheel would behave in a real atmosphere was to put it on a car and let the road deliver its own verdict.