{"id":51990,"date":"2021-02-14T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=51990"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:27:41","slug":"project-cars-3-youve-never-seen-a-car-that-can-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/14\/project-cars-3-youve-never-seen-a-car-that-can-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Cars 3: you&#8217;ve never seen a car that can do this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mercedes-Benz&#039; AMAZING cooling technology for the 1989 Sauber C9!!!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CzJ_HPBdqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I learned about the revolutionary cooling system in a 1989 Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz, which is the fancy racecar you drive around a canyon track in today&#8217;s rivals event.&nbsp; Wait, don&#8217;t go!&nbsp; I know it sounds boring.&nbsp; But it&#8217;s not what you&#8217;re thinking.&nbsp; It&#8217;s like something out of Cyberpunk 2077.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve even included video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Driving from the cockpit view of this Mercedes-Benz, you&#8217;ll see the vents in the fender above your front wheels.&nbsp; These are obviously to help airflow for cooling.&nbsp; That&#8217;s what vents do.&nbsp; But the fenders over the front wheel do something I&#8217;ve never seen before.&nbsp; As you can see in the video, they&#8217;re apparently hinged, so that they can rapidly flap up and down.&nbsp; At first I figured this must be part of how the car managed brake temperature.&nbsp; Brakes get really hot.&nbsp; It generates a lot of heat to slow down a car that&#8217;s going 200mph.&nbsp; But the fenders don&#8217;t always flap when you brake.&nbsp; Sometimes they flap when you&#8217;re coasting or accelerating.&nbsp; I can only conclude there&#8217;s some sort of automated sensors that flap whenever excess heat needs to be bled from the wheel wells.&nbsp; Ingenious!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But as you&#8217;ll note from the video above, it&#8217;s not just the fenders over the wheel well that flap.&nbsp; At the fifteen-second mark, you can see from the hood cam that the front grill is also part of this hinged cooling system.&nbsp; Even more ingenious!&nbsp; It reminds me of the engineering ingenuity in fighter planes in World War II that allowed their guns to fire through the plane&#8217;s propellers.&nbsp; A timing chain limited the gunfire to the precise moment a bullet would pass between the propeller&#8217;s turning blades.&nbsp; Similarly, the fender and grill of the Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz are part of an automated cooling system that increases the air flow dynamically, cooling both the brakes and the engine at the precise moments they need cooling.&nbsp; Astounding!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that&#8217;s not the most impressive part.&nbsp; At the thirty-second mark, I replay the same section from external trackside cameras.&nbsp; Now you can see the fender and grill as a spectator would see them.&nbsp; They&#8217;re flapping so efficiently that you can&#8217;t even perceive their motion from this distance and perspective!&nbsp; The car&#8217;s sleek appearance is entirely intact.&nbsp; Beautiful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like quality assurance, technology never ceases to amaze me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/17\/project-cars-3-hey-did-you-happen-to-see-the-most-hideous-car-in-the-world\/\">hey, did you happen to see the most hideous car in the world?<\/a><br>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/02\/13\/project-cars-3-it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night-on-cougar-ridge\/\">it was a dark and stormy night on Cougar Ridge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned about the revolutionary cooling system in a 1989 Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz, which is the fancy racecar you drive around a canyon track in today&#8217;s rivals event.&nbsp; 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