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Originally Posted by BeatUpRanger
While Googling images of air dams, I came across this racing page, which summarized a lot of the aerodynamic add-ons of performance cars.
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I didn't read everything on their page, but at least one thing I saw was wrong. Their graphic "Car Underbody Aerodynamics" shows air coming into the underbody as being "Fast Low Pressure Air" and exiting as "Slower Moving Higher Pressure Air". If the air is going slower leaving the diffuser (which we could reasonably assume) the pressure is lower, not higher. This is why diffusers generate downforce, they are being pulled down by the low pressure air.
Due to this oversight, just make sure you keep a cautious eye when reading people's aerodynamics pages, as it's easy to get thing wrong.