When one big ass wing isn't enough.....
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You put two of them...yeah, two of the big ones.... on the car.
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I wonder how much the airflow over the front disturbs the airflow over the rear....
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I wonder how much the airflow over the front disturbs the airflow over the rear....
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The name on the door says Chris Rado - this guy has been around a while doing quite a few different kind of racing. He started out building some insane MKIV Supras for drag racing, but it looks like he has done some road racing as well.
Chris Rado - Speedhunters
Maybe the spoiler was some sort of experiment or funny April Fool's joke or something.
Chris Rado - Speedhunters
Maybe the spoiler was some sort of experiment or funny April Fool's joke or something.
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That is a FWD Scion TC going 10 seconds a lap faster than Matt Andrews' carbon Miata and 15 seconds a lap faster than a Spec Miata around that track. It's entirely justified.
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I'm not completely discounting the fact that it works... but it does look funny and I don't want to imagine if he caught some lap traffic and got tangled up with someone. And with the budget that Rado has, I bet it would be 9.5 seconds a lap faster than Matt's car even without the front sing.
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I'm guessing he's making enough excess power to overcome the additional drag created by all of that extra scaffolding. I bet the front braking threshold has improved at the end of the straights.
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omg truck aero sweet, someone really should design a better truck aero package they would be able to easily get 10-20% gas mileage if they all weren't designed to appeal to rednecks who love bricks and rectangular objects.
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Seriously, though. They are getting better. The Kenworth T2000 for instance looks like it might actually have a lower CD than, say, Utah:
Peterbilt's even got an OTR Hybrid out now: http://www.peterbilt.com/hybrid386.1.aspx
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