Imagine the shape of an airplane's wing -- it creates lower pressure on the top surface of the wing, helping to produce lift. The body of the Enzo is like an upside-down wing. The shape of the car, from the spoilers to the undercarriage, acts to create downforce, literally sucking ...
Extensive testing is done in a wind tunnel to optimize the body design for maximum downforce. The body is mounted as far back on the frame as possible -- about 5 inches (12.7 cm) back from the body location on a super-speedway car. This helps the car create extra downforce. The front...
The inference is that around Monza the Red Bull would simply lose too much downforce to achieve its best lap time if they attempted to use a rear wing such as those on their two rivals. Their efficiencies in this part of the drag/downforce range are not good....
Smiggins FlushPoke Oh im sorry, I guess if the article says its clean then it has to be... APR GT wings that high create good usable downforce. Not something normally associated with the word clean. Share 8:20 amDecember 23, 2016 FlushPoke Nickgenerazio32 ??? What does my user...
The weight of the air is exerted onto the container via a pressure differential, higher at the bottom, lower at the top so that the downforce exerted onto the container by the air equals the weight of the air. Next, add a small aircraft model inside the container, at rest on ...
While store bought additives are in general fairly safe, only a handful of them actually improve your octane by a reasonable amount, the rest simply take your money. If you own a high octane sports car and are contemplating using the low octane gas and adding octane booster to compensate, ...
Consequently, the Daytona 500, or simply The 500 as it is known by NASCAR fans, is sometimes referred to as the Great American Race. The Daytona 500 is unique in many ways. For one, the race is in the beginning of the NASCAR season. That may sound odd and begs the question, "Why ...
Simply put, they convert the energy of the mousetrap's spring into rotational energy that gets delivered to one set of wheels. A rod connected to the trap bar (the piece normally used to snap a mouse's neck) pulls on a long piece of string wound around one of the axles. As the stri...
It's designed to harness the wind and press your car to the pavement at high speeds. The result is better grip on the road, but this "downforce" is actually artificial weight that hurts fuel economy. Worse, unless you are a racing technician versed in aerodynamics, chances are excellent th...