Originally Posted by bluescortcossie
Originally Posted by Matt J
, what were those discs on the rear wheels for? I can remember the primeras had them aswell, were they for cooling or summat?
if i remember right they were to add more downforce to the rear of the car
theyre High speed discs , an aero device for longer curcuits or for particularily high speed straights ,all sorts of different things were tried - the 98 Mondeo had a fake rear wiper on , it actually gave another 50 kilos of downforce at full speed .
Ive owned all the 98 cars and a couple of the '97 cars now , most are in Germany but the Mansell car is still about
