Hi guys.
I will be posting the Pagani Huayra Story as it develops.

Here is the first part/announcement.

Enjoy and keep an eye on this thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-HMxSdy7k

 

thats awesome. Cool to see the wheels are functional, not just ugly

 

I find this claim a bit bizarre to be honest. Not only do they lack the true turbines as seen on the Koenigsegg Agera (which I assume is what they're trying to emulate?), but it's also angled the wrong way so that the air gets sucked into the wheel instead of being pulled out of it? Or am I seing it wrong?

 

It's there a benefit to wheels pumping air under the car? It would probably ruin much down force, so I doubt it.

 

Would that not create lift, instead of downforce? Definitely sounds counterintuitive.

 

That's what I'm thinking too. But lookin at the spokes they certainly appear to be angled forward?

 

The wheels on the left vs the right side are angled differently, that's why the car looks like it has odd wheels.
Im sure Mr pagani knows not to destroy lift by mistake while trying to cool the brakes

PS
If you feed air under the car at a higher speed, say propelled by the blades of the wheels you take fresh air and accelerate it past the brakes which in term cools them, and speeds up the air flow under the car, which is like a venturi tunnel.
If you speed up the air it drops in pressure creating a negative p which then sucks the car to the ground..IE more downforce.

 

 

^Thnx explains my point in a picture

 

Left and right side? No I was refering to the spokes or the vanes or whatever you want to call them are angled in such a way that the wheel will suck air into it when the car is moving forward. It's almost like they've designed it to be driven in reverse?

Say what now? Surely pumping air into the wheel would create a high pressure zone in the wheel housing? You've got all these race cars in LMP1 and hyper car manufacturers (including Pagani themselves with their former iterations) placing vents there to extract even more air and prevent a air cushion effect, but this do not apply to the Huayra?

And didn't they specifically say in the video that it was designed to extract air? Extract air from what? The atmosphere?