Sam Lowes conducted some aerodynamic tests at the University of Perugia, in Italy, one of the two wind tunnels that Moto2 teams like to go to, along with the one in Geneva.
If the video is nice, the work, at this level, is not extremely sophisticated, since it is simply a matter of finding the best position for the British driver on his Kalex, from the scales installed under the wheels; the better the profile of the pilot, the lower the loads on the rear balance will be, the smoke being there only to visualize the flow of air and its turbulence.
This is a “spectacular” first step to sort out the most blatant errors, but it remains very empirical in relation to what we can do in aerodynamics (and which we have been doing for a long time in F1, more recently in motorcycles) , with some gigantic calculation means in CFD where, then, the wind tunnel becomes just one of the verification tools.
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