A GUIDE TO THE AERO ON THE TOYOTA YARIS WRC

TOM FOWLER

BONNET We have two big cooling exit ducts in the bonnet. All that air that goes in to the front of the car has to come out somewhere as hot air, and this is where that happens. COOLING This big mouth in the front bumper is all about cooling. The air going in there is distributed between the water radiator and the intercooler, and we have some ducts taking air to the front brakes. There’s also some cooling in there for the gearbox and power-steering. FRONT CORNER The two dive planes mounted at the front corners are purely aerodynamic devices to generate front downforce. These are really critical to the frontal aerodynamic performance. UNDERBODY We’ve tried to get the underside of the car as flat as possible. At the front we have a vertical airdam – on…

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