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There's a big difference between race cars and road cars. Lets go back 56-52 years about talk about the 1963-1967 Corvette Stingray. The car may have been sleek and beautiful but it had a very serious aerodynamic problem. You see that real pretty front end produced lift at higher speeds. The car was a real handful to drive over 100 miles per hour because the front end got very light due to lift.
Jump ahead to the 1969 Dodge Daytona and 1970 Plymouth Superbird which had Cds in the .28 range. On the track those two cars had a huge advantage at high speed and not because of the sleek nose and the spoiler gaining them down force and aerodynamic advantage, but because of that tall wing in the rear. You see you couldn't spin the car out because as soon as you started to slide the back end out the air would hit the side of the strut holding the rear wing and push you right back to into a neutral air configuration.
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