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I fully agree that having a rolling floor in the wind tunnel gives you more accurate results but I accept that they were not readily available back then. In F1 a rolling floor tunnel is much more important because the wheels spin freely in the air. From the benchmark point of view it's more valueable to the magazins reader to have ceteris paribus condition (or the same tunnel) than a switch in design. The alternative would have been a retest in a rolling floor tunnel all cars that some of have rusted away in the meantime . Aero-testing IS expensive. As the underbody and the front wheels account for around 1/3 of the whole car I would expect substantional differences. But I won't defend a German car magazin, oh no, even though Sport Auto is the most serious of them all.Wheels: Size, design and offset play and an important role. That's were the 'unsporty' (to some people) 02+ wheels are expected to perform better at high speeds than most todays sportcars. Due to this I except the NSX-R to perform even better to the other mentioned sport cars (except the Lotus and the McLaren).
I fully agree that having a rolling floor in the wind tunnel gives you more accurate results but I accept that they were not readily available back then. In F1 a rolling floor tunnel is much more important because the wheels spin freely in the air. From the benchmark point of view it's more valueable to the magazins reader to have ceteris paribus condition (or the same tunnel) than a switch in design. The alternative would have been a retest in a rolling floor tunnel all cars that some of have rusted away in the meantime . Aero-testing IS expensive. As the underbody and the front wheels account for around 1/3 of the whole car I would expect substantional differences. But I won't defend a German car magazin, oh no, even though Sport Auto is the most serious of them all.
Wheels: Size, design and offset play and an important role. That's were the 'unsporty' (to some people) 02+ wheels are expected to perform better at high speeds than most todays sportcars. Due to this I except the NSX-R to perform even better to the other mentioned sport cars (except the Lotus and the McLaren).
