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Originally Posted by TPorsche912 View Post
Based on my expert engineering analysis of those ducts I have determined that they are in fact a very well thought out race modification. Anyone who has driven a rear engine car at high speed on a track will know that there is very heavy braking involved while approaching a tight turn. In this case, they have set the brake bias heavy to the front brakes. When you stand on the brakes, the rear of the car goes airborne, thus placing the duct openings for maximum cooling of the rear brakes while they are at the highest point in the air stream. I am assuming of course that the car is capable of a maximum velocity of approximately 350 mph. It does have nos, so depending on the duration of the "squirt" that is not totally out of the question.

Thanks for the excellent assessment of the well-engineered rear brake cooling ducts. The only question which springs to mind is this: Given the terminal velocity of the aerodynamic profile on this car the only way I see it, reaching your well calculated maximum speed to extract the efficiency of the ducts is if the car were to be placed in the belly of an airplane which could reach that speed. If that were the case I still don’t think those well engineered ducts would be of much value.
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