Isn't it more efficient coasting in gear/engine on?

[Arragonis]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Magnesium engine block going through the grandstand like a flaming meteor? Maybe I picked a bad example. e what brakes you do have. So, no benefit for hypermiling (back on topic).

Actually I'm probably over egging it. I remember reading some speculation in the classic car world a few years ago as to whether the air brake was deployed shortly before Levegh's 300 SLR hit the Austin Healey and whether than contributed to Levegh losing control - possible based on a series of pics including this one.



Wikipedia suggests not, so as you were

[freebeard]

A cascade of simple failures can bring a complex system down. In any case, it was a bad scene.