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This research investigates the possibility of designing a rim that can extract hot air from underneath the hood of a 2CV race car. The main advantage of these rims is that the engine can better lose its heat. To make this possible the spokes of the rim are designed like fan blades so that the air could be extracted. The mass flow was determined by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling on the extracted air. Another analysis that’s being done is a Finite Element structural analysis. With this analysis the strength of the rim was calculated. Afterwards a model was created such that through optimization it was possible to find the best optimal solution. The results show that it’s possible to develop a rim that is strong enough and that can extract air from under the hood of a 2CV race car. For the structural analysis the loads that work on the rim were the centrifugal force, the pressure in the tires and the load due to the weight of the car. The obtained results from the structural analysis compared very well with the results from previously done manual calculations. The boundary conditions that were placed on the model for the flow analysis were ‘Moving frame of reference’, ‘Static pressure type’ and ‘Boundary flow surface’. The flow analysis Future improvements could be further enhanced by decreasing the mesh size.