Following in the footsteps of Max Orido and Tetsuya Hibino, it appears that Ken Nomura aka Nomuken will be driving a Toyota GT86 in D1 next season. This snapshot shows off some interesting lexan pieces attached to the rear wing. Formula D has taken steps to minimize the size of spoiler end plates, it doesn’t appear that D1 has the same rules.
Image credit – Bulletproof Automotive USA / Bespoke Ventures and 7Tune
What is the benefit of running those massive end plates like that? My elementary aerodynamic guess is that is prevents the car from getting too much angle by providing more resistance as the car achieves more angle. Can anyone confirm/deny this? I remember Millen used to run these, always thought they were goofy looking.
Actually that wing does a great job unintentionally exploiting grey area if applied to the FD rulebook.
You are limited on the # of square inches on a plane per side of the car. Now it doesn’t explicitly say anything about parallel planes, etc, that’s a brilliant idea to get around the rules, although I’m sure that’s not why it was made that way, but very innovative.
These cars are rad.
dale earnhardt’s D1 car
Didn’t Nomura already debut a GT86 in ’12? I saw him trying to qualify in some of the 2012 D1 videos online. Didn’t he start driving it after the Blitz Skyline was totaled?
Is this a new 86? Different from the one I mentioned I mean
They channel the air forcing it to actually cross the plane of the wing in this application.
Rhys’s was just so he could pull 100* of angle coming off the bank at Irwindale and blow everyones minds, even though if we look back it’s probably only like 40* of angle, and by todays standards isn’t cool.
@LOLRamen: Thats exactly why. I once saw a japanese guy in a japanese video talk about it. Thats what they did on the Goodyear R34 anyways.
Yah, Nomuken has already been competing with the GT86 since the later parts of last season!
Ken drove that car for most of the 2012 season.
It looks 100 times better without the god awful Yellow and Green Falken livery.
Yeah ken has been in this car for quite a bit…
He has indeed been using the car for some time, though not very successfully as though I haven’t been as up to date with the d1 results as I have with past years but I am yet to see him actually make it into a top 16 bate with the car, it seemed to have a lot of teething issues, let alone the fact that nomura had been driving that skyline for many years.
Also spyshot? It’s on public display
The photographer was hiding behind a fake brush while taking these shots