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Old 10-29-2022, 05:39 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Phase
What’s the explanation for the front car benefitting?
That's an interesting question isn't it.

I picture the wake as tiny, invisible clutching fingers, trying to drag the car backward, reletively speaking. The pressure difference can creep forward behind some certain body features, presumably the tail end of the wake (small narrow and close to the ground) can influence the parts further forward.

Push the bow wave of a second vehicle into it and counterintuitive things might hanppen.
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