The Engineering Marvel: Formula 1 Diffuser Wheels

Previously

…The diffuser wheel was a demonstration that the wheel assembly, long considered a dead zone for aerodynamic development, contained potential that the regulations had not yet fully addressed. The teams that understood that lesson would not replicate the diffuser wheel. They would find the next boundary, the next surface that had been overlooked, the next interface where a small change in shape could redirect a flow of air and alter the balance of a car traveling at three hundred kilometers per hour. The engineering marvel was never the device itself. It was the willingness to look at a wheel and see something that no one had seen before.