Parity was again within the highlight over the Sandown 500 weekend with the very best of the Camaros wanting just like the quicker bundle.
Fears of a whole whitewash, prompted by the fast tempo of the Chevrolets in apply, weren’t fairly realised, with six Mustangs making the High 10 Shootout.
Come race day it was nonetheless an all-Camaro high 5, though that was helped by the 2 quickest Fords within the early levels – the #26 Grove Mustang and the #6 Tickford Mustang – being taken out of the operating in the identical freak incident.
The Grove automotive, pushed on the time by Garth Tander, shed a wheel at Dandenong Highway, the rogue wheel then accumulating the Tickford automotive and destroying its rear wing.
Ford is thought to be pushing for an additional aero tweak forward of the Bathurst 1000, with the entrance bar now the main focus because it seems to be to shift the aero steadiness of the Mustang to the rear.
Whereas that isn’t out of the query, it seems the main focus from Supercars and its homologation groups Triple Eight (GM) and Dick Johnson Racing (Ford) is already on the longer term.
Autosport can reveal that plans for wind tunnel testing, almost certainly within the US, are already within the works for the Camaro and the Mustang.
Wind tunnel testing has been used extensively in different classes
Wind tunnel testing was recognized by groups as the following logical step earlier this season, with groups now largely anticipating it to go forward within the low season.
Supercars declined to remark when contacted by Autosport.
The transfer to what’s successfully a whole management bundle underneath the bodywork, save for the 2 totally different engines, has put an emphasis on aero parity by no means seen in Supercars earlier than.
Whereas the Automobile Managed Aerodynamic Testing (VCAT) course of used previously was adequate when groups nonetheless had freedoms in aeros akin to entrance suspension, the removing of these freedoms has put a premium on aero efficiency being completely completely balanced between the 2 makes.
Therefore why Supercars has moved to analyze a expensive wind tunnel programme which might be anticipated to place and finish to the parity dialogue – at the least by way of aero.