They both have different jobs and different uses. The job of the wing is to create downforce. This downforce allows the car to stay on the ground while cornering and travelling at really fast speeds. Wings are mostly used in high-speed cars. There are other ways to do the job a wing does but using a wing is more efficient and faster.
Wing works by manipulating the air going through it. When air passes through a wing it creates two pressure zones, high pressure on top of the wing and low pressure on the bottom refer to the image in the downforce section.
The high-pressure air is what creates the downforce. This all sounds easy enough but it needs to be made almost perfectly as to not have any unnecessary drag on the car. That covers wings and how they create downforce. The spoilers job is to prevent or reduce lift.
The lift as we have seen in downforce is the aerodynamic force that wants to lift your car upwards. The high pressure which was supposed to lift your car up is now switched and harmlessly moves away from the car. The spoilers do not give your car any extra power. Spoilers at low speed do nothing at all and only work at quite high speed.
You can start seeing the effects of the spoiler at over kmph and you need to be consistently above this speed to see any difference. Not driving at this speed or above just hampers the aerodynamics of your car if rear spoilers are used and thus are almost useless. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Sign in. Log into your account.
Forgot your password? Create an account. This is especially useful in a race where a driver will want to go as fast as possible around a turn. Spoilers are becoming more popular on more vehicles. For the purposes of our discussion today, a spoiler is designed to actually spoil the airflow coming over the top of a vehicle.
Like a wing, a spoiler redirects airflow up and away from the vehicle, but for a different reason. Where a high-performance car wants that downforce for better high-speed maneuverability, a spoiler redirects air away from the low-pressure pocket formed behind the vehicle.
When the airflow from the top of the car interacts with the low-pressure pocket it creates turbulence. And, out of control turbulence hurts fuel economy. If you would like to see various kinds of wings and spoilers in action, make an appointment with a Prestige Imports product expert today to take something in our showroom for a test drive.
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