Grintch
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Yes, if you design the car from scratch to support ducts, ducts would be better. But if you have a bunch of stuff in the way and have to twist and turn to get the air through the duct, and the duct has to move with steering travel, that duct doesn't work that well anymore.Vorschalg did all kinds of testing. I forget where you can read about it. The splitter channel ducts showed cooler brake temps. They even combined 4" hose ducts with the splitter channel ducts and that did not reduce brake temps over the channel ducts alone! That was a huge surprise. Airflow is a strange thing. Personally, I'm happy to have one less thing to fix and maintain.
Many real Formula cars and Prototypes have very short ducts. Shorten the duct enough and it starts looking a lot like a deflector.
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