What.... The.... F---.......
People need to stop making ugly cars behind my back.
Okay, here's my first gripe about the Lego Noses: Someone actually thought this was a good idea. Now for what? It's certainly the opposite of aerodynamic, you may as well put a brick wall on the nose. I can kinda see the reasoning behind the suspension geometry, but another brilliant way around that is by designing another nose.
The downfall of the Ferrari is that what they are trying to do is design suspension geometry that is rigged to the chassis at a point that is higher than the nose itself, therefore they had to raise the nose to an unnatural point. It could have been as easy as
making the nose a little bigger. But no.
My second gripe: did the aerodynamics get any say in this project at all? They must have had thrown a fit when they saw the nose in CATIA.
After thinking about it a little while writing this post, I think there is a tiny bit of an advantage. Airflow going over the Lego piece will surely be shot upward. However, that may produce some downforce if they are smart and are able to channel the upward flow to point it towards the engine intake. That's probably why there are two intakes in the airbox. In short, it's like they made the step to act like a wing.
However, there's already plenty of downforce on the front coming from the snowplow wing. You would want that kind of feature on the rear, where you desperately need downforce due to the tiny wing.
But hey, we're not the FEA engineers who were sitting behind the screens and drawing boards this whole time. Whatever happened, this Lego nose has some sort of amazing net profit in the long run, because everybody else is apparently deploying it.
-Slicer
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