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Originally Posted by aerohead
From an SAE Paper from the latter 1980s,the F1/Indycar body was:
*Cd 0.24 by itself.
*Cd 0.54 with wheels.
*Cd 1.2 with wheels and wings.
*They were turning laps at Indy at 235-mph.
*At 150-mph their dynamic 'weight' was 5,000-lbs,for a car of 1,500-lb static weight.
*And yes,they could easily race inverted.
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I shared this with my wife... and immediately wondered about a day when driver-less indy race cars drive on wild tracks with inverted sections, because the fear of driver injury had been eliminated. The new design problems and possibilities, the thrill for audiences of watching in person as full-sized cars do almost aerobatic maneuvers. Day dreaming.