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<blockquote data-quote="arturo" data-source="post: 4484840" data-attributes="member: 4288"><p>i can help answer this...remember Ayrton Senna? the great F1 driver who crashed his F1 car and died? during his time, F1 cars heavily depended on the ground effect for downforce purposes and what they found out the lower the front part of the car is to the ground, the higher the downforce subjected to the car in its entirety(rear will be higher to create a low pressure area below the car) there is however a limit to how low the car can be lowered without damaging it when racing so they compensated for this by installing stiff curtains that draped down. this reduced the gap that air could pass thru the fronts n sides...he crashed cos the curtains lifted and the pressure difference was lost which caused him to loose control suddenly and without warning.</p><p></p><p>and if my memory hasnt failed me...lotus had already used this ground effect for downforce back in the 70s...</p><p></p><p>so yes...height of the bottom of the car does play a part but not till a height that no air passes under the car.<img src="https://zerotohundred.com/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/driver.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":driver:" title="Driver :driver:" data-shortname=":driver:" /></p><p></p><p>another factor in the ground effect...front of car lower than rear of car = good.<img src="https://zerotohundred.com/forums/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":biggrin:" title="Biggrin :biggrin:" data-shortname=":biggrin:" /></p><p></p><p>aiyak....i took too long to reply leo aredy reply hahahah</p><p></p><p>n to add the veyron spolier facts...</p><p>http://www.bugatti.com/en/veyron-16.4/technology/speed.html</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arturo, post: 4484840, member: 4288"] i can help answer this...remember Ayrton Senna? the great F1 driver who crashed his F1 car and died? during his time, F1 cars heavily depended on the ground effect for downforce purposes and what they found out the lower the front part of the car is to the ground, the higher the downforce subjected to the car in its entirety(rear will be higher to create a low pressure area below the car) there is however a limit to how low the car can be lowered without damaging it when racing so they compensated for this by installing stiff curtains that draped down. this reduced the gap that air could pass thru the fronts n sides...he crashed cos the curtains lifted and the pressure difference was lost which caused him to loose control suddenly and without warning. and if my memory hasnt failed me...lotus had already used this ground effect for downforce back in the 70s... so yes...height of the bottom of the car does play a part but not till a height that no air passes under the car.:driver: another factor in the ground effect...front of car lower than rear of car = good.:biggrin: aiyak....i took too long to reply leo aredy reply hahahah n to add the veyron spolier facts... http://www.bugatti.com/en/veyron-16.4/technology/speed.html [/QUOTE]
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