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Old 09-21-2017, 12:18 PM   #12 (permalink)
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One can suck the car down on the road so much, it would be like adding a thousand pounds, and that's going to cost you some energy and efficiency.

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There’s some disagreement over how fast an F1 car would need to go to generate the necessary downforce, but it is scientifically sound. So long as a car is producing a force equal to its weight, anyway...............
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