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Originally Posted by wdb
The NASCAR roof flaps keep the car from launching when it's going backwards. The Lemans car pictured managed to launch itself while going frontwards.
Smaller levels of racing indeed! The cars I believe you're referring to are Jim Hall's famous Chaparral 2J Can-Am "sucker car" and the copycat Brabham/Alfa BT46 F1 car.
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WOW, I wasn't aware of those. Jim Hall I can claim as "before my time"
Until today I had only seen this at entry level racing. Thanks for pointing those out. Guess that's where the guys I saw pulled their ideas from !
On the nascar flaps, apparently you've never seen the rear go up on one of them and run down the straight on its nose........ don't make turn 1 very well though
Yes, they do also work when the car gets spun around backwards as well.