love it !!!
for those of you thinking about running this on a PT car.
Greg already said, you bring it, we ban it (or add a ton of points to it)

William, the wing is a nice shortcut, but you can definitely make the extra downforce within the PT rules.
The shortcut is that you can tune it easier on the spot without replacing parts, but given that PT allows splitters and dive planes, it can all be done :)

Moti

Must have taken first at one of the races. It looks like it's in 6th place currently:
2013 Championship Points

Never trust what you read on Speedhunters.

I found a high quality YouTube channel that covers these UK races. Hope nobody's busy for the next hour or so:
Togethia TV on YouTube

Woah there Mr. Doubter Pants

It did take first at one of the events, that's exactly what I meant. Wasn't implying anything beyond that, nor was Speedhunters AFAIK. Their series awards additional points for the preliminary qualifying results, so there is someone who netted more points for the event than him, but if you place your mouse over the highlighted "DR(0)" for that third event, the final results for that event pop up below, where you can see that Simon Scuffham (Lotus Exige S1) clocked the fastest final time with a 1:12.176.

Looking at his overall results, he missed the first event so naturally he wouldn't be in the running for top place in the overall season.

Furthermore, his finishing result of the second event is only poor because he appears to not have run later in the event (mechanical issue?) But, in the qualifying he was the fastest overall. There's 7 events for the season, so the fat lady is definitely not singing yet at 6th in points after only 3 events. If they can get that Lotus running reliably, it looks like it has a good shot.

My main point was that said car is rocking a front wing and is doing admirably well against some very stiff competition in the UK time attack circuit. ;)

:2cents:

Did he give any explanation as to why?

No need for a novel on this one. Neither you or Speedhunters were very specific about it being one race.

Probably to prevent an arms race, especially since you're talking about something as sensitive as a front wing in terms of both performance and longevity in a w2w environment...

Moti

From a recent post on the WTAC FB page -
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1371267612

:wavey:

May I presume that "Scuffers" is Mr. Scuffham?
Ahh the wonders of the interwebz :wavey:

You presume right!

and yes, the power of Google! (came up with this thread in the 'talked about' bit)

Nice :)
Well don't just sit there rolling your thumbs together, spill the beans buddy... haha!
Do share what details you can - what wing? CFD done? how was the position determined etc...

Thanks!

Moti

LOL!

not much to tell, I am not the aero guy, that's Simon McBeath

The history is this, the car belongs to Jamie Willson, he ran it in TA first in 2010 then 2012.

last year he added a *HUGE* rear wing to it, (along with a shed load of other stuff) and whilst it worked great (and he won the Club-Pro championship), it pushed the car into high-speed understeer.

After a lot of thought/conversations/etc. Simon came up with a list of stuff to look at, including a front wing, Jamie then fabricated all this stuff and got it ready for test, we then got 3 hours time in MIRA's full size wind-tunnel to test out this stuff (nothing like enough, but beggars can't be choosers!)

http://www.lotussport.org/download/file.php?id=1983

can't say much about this yet, as it was done off the back of some work for Racecar Engineering Magazine, and till it's fully published, we are not at liberty to publish anything about it.

Anyway, much as I hate the look of it, it does work, but not in the way most people would think, however, it had moved the aero balance forward significantly (along with a load of other stuff).

not really had the chance to fully test it out at the track yet, as we are suffering a lot of niggles with the car (teething stuff from other work done for this year), but what I can tell you is that we have not really scratched the surface of the cars ultimate pace yet, and the aero package is very significant, to the point we are having to change the cars suspension setup to account for it (a lot more than we though we would).

if you want to real up on the car, Jamie has a website here: about it, and a facebook page here:

My part in all of this apart from being the test-pilot is I am the engineer behind most of the cars mechanical build, from the suspension and powertrain package though to the electronics.

Anyway, I think that's enough trumpet blowing for now! (feel free to ask anything)

Cheers

Simon

what Moti said.