The Secret of Car Spoilers

This video explains the benefits of wings to the speed and safety of vehicles. A mathematical breakdown of the equations involved in the generation of downforce and its effects on the traction of the tires.
The spoiler does not directly make the car any faster. In fact, the spoiler adds to the drag coefficient reducing the efficiency of the car in cutting through the air. However, while generating drag force, the spoiler also generates a significant amount of downforce. The downforce of course depends on the shape of the wing and speed of the vehicle amongst other things. This downforce contributes to the ability of the car to stick to the road. Since the car "sticks" to the road better, it could also allow for a higher velocity when making a curve. This is where the main advantage of the spoiler lies. The spoiler makes the car safer for higher travel speeds. Though to achieve those speeds, the engine and aerodynamic shape are still the most important components.
Lastly, the video makes a comparison between a car with and without a wing. Putting numbers to the examples makes the difference more obvious.
Videos Obtained from: pexels.com and videvo.net
Video Authors: Tom Fisk
Photos Obtained from: Unspash.com and pixabay.com
Photographers: Tim Meyer, Yuvraj Singh, jlxp
Track name: Creative Minds, Slowmotion
Music from: www.bensound.com
Composer: Benjamin Tissot

[@TeraAFK]

Wings and spoilers have different purposes and you seem to be using them interchangeably. Wing creates downfoce and increases drag, and is literally an airplane wing mounted upside down. A wing is used to help the rear wheel maintain contact when travelling at highspeeds by combating lift. Spoilers mitigate drag and lift by redirecting the air to better fill the low pressure regions left behind by the car and can be useful even lower speed environments

[@kakashi_senpai042]

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[@larrypalmer7136]

Nice video, super irritating music at too high volume.

[@Thatdavemarsh]

Nicely put together. As a fellow engineer, I enjoy listening/watching these topics. Subbed.

[@poster99999999]

Love to see the rough math or analysis of F1 cars.

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

If the car wing down force doubles the down force on the tyres then the speed should double in a curve. But the front may slide out. Suspension would also need to adjust for control reasons. The wing would need to adjust in the straights. This is getting complicated Hahaha 😕 Good work as you illustrate all the components of this matter. A picture is worth a thousand words. You also illustrate how intuition can make use of your insights to quickly go to better places with more thinking. 😀

[@hafdone6931]

Wonderful animations

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thank you Sir, appreciate the support

[@macedonia666]

beauty, well done

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thank you!

[@ShakeelAhmed-pl3pb]

What a great work Never seen like your videos before what software you use to demonstrate?

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thank you Shakeel, we really appreciate your support! We do most of our work in the Adobe package software (Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere pro etc).

[@ShakeelAhmed-pl3pb]

Thank you so much Sir.

[@DusTieOP]

So good

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@simonakrstevska793]

Very Interesting

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Glad you think so!

[@vesnastamenova3339]

I love it. Keep up good work

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thank you, will do!

[@gracycesimmons3370]

In the beginning, I had a difficult time understanding the way wings work. That was until a before and after VR wing instalment and overall change in performance

[@lydiaskitchentalkshow9630]

Thanks for sharing

[@TheEngineeringHub]

Thanks for watching!

[@stephenbrickwood1602]

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[@jeromehugh9624]

3:45 Something does not add up. Front wheels are responsible for steering controls. Spoilers are behind the rear wheels. By generating more down force on the Spoilers only reduces downforce aka traction on the front wheels. So this explanation feels misleading at the best.

[@jlha1]

maybe you should look at the old ford sierra hatchback and its wind tunnel tests ford did, why do you think they put a rear spoiler, front spoiler, side skirts etc on the xr4 ti and cosworth, and there i am thinking of normal street version, could it be because wind tunnel tests showed there was a lift over the rear wheels of 225 kg at 150 km/h, after the big whale tail wing came on there was only 75 kg lift and the 2 rubber lips on the rs 500 there was 15 kg downforce, it wasn't for fun either they put a spoiler on the mk 2 sierra cosworth or the big wing on the escort cosworth and there I mean the street versions, see that the ecsort wrc version later got a different type of rear spoiler than the street version, look at modern street cars today, they also have spoilers and skirts because they both provide better fuel economy and better driving characteristics, even on a small opel corsa 1.0 it is on

[@vice4134]

The cars are on the WRONG side of the road in your video! LOL

[@Smartrior]

Smtn wrong with audio in 2nd part of video

[@stooncol619]

Very informative but the music is very loud compared to your voice

[@stevenreyna3437]

Change the title of the video. In a subject where technical terms are extremely important, it's poor form to get that wrong. Wings and spoilers are two entirely different things.

[@alext8828]

A wing is not a spoiler.

[@JoeOvercoat]

A spoiler is not a wing. In fact, one can think of it as an anti-wing. Please retitle appropriately.

[@theskdancer7654]

👍👍👍

[@spectra7gaming471]

Thats a horrible video

[@TheEngineeringHub]

yeah it's an old one. I like to think it's gotten better since then

[@spectra7gaming471]

@@TheEngineeringHub Where is data coming from online? In person? Txtbook? What textbook?

[@TheEngineeringHub]

@@spectra7gaming471 what data are you referring to?