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Old 01-26-2011, 02:10 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Given the goals of minimizing drag and maximizing downforce, If this was your car to develop how would you proceed?
Just my .02 cents.

A front air dam will have a large effect on the reduction of lift, with a minimum increase in drag.

If there are no rules on the size of a air dam, I would make it as large and low as possible.(maximum effect)

Road races are usually won by whoever is the fastest going in, through and out of a turn. A large air dam will help that happen.

But then again, a air dam is but one tool in a bag of tools.




I never heard of ChumpCar Racing before. It looks like my kind of racing.
(cheap & fun)


In case no one else is familiar.



I see that the series will be in my neck of the woods this weekend coming. I might have to go.

29-30 January 2011
Roebling Road (Bloomingdale, GA)
January Junkfest!

I've been around that track a few times but it was on two wheels.

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