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Post by wilmywood8455 on May 21, 2023 7:17:15 GMT -8
Qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 is all about optimizing what you have to work with, right down to the literal nuts and bolts.
This weekend marks qualifying for next Sunday's Indianapolis 500, a weekend-long saga that pits IndyCar teams against the limits of what a spec chassis can do and drivers against the challenges that come with four flat-out laps in a car designed to optimize lap times over drivability. IndyCar has used the same chassis since 2012, so teams have had to work down to the smallest details to find new speed. As RACER's Marshall Pruett illustrated on YouTube today, that even includes the literal nuts and bolts that fasten aero components to the car.
In a video for RACER's YouTube channel, Pruett looks at three front wing extensions fastened to car in different ways. The first, on a car run by Chip Ganassi Racing, is simply a set of screws fastened to a hexagon-shaped nut to hold on an unpainted bare carbon wing extension. That is the most obvious choice, keeping the component attached and most easily adjusted. At Arrow McLaren, things get more complicated.
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