Some of you math whizzes out there do a little calculating along the lines of: 0 to 100 miles per hour in 1 7/8" Wind resistance (co-efficient of drag) of a .440" x 2" chord of a sphere Effect of drafting by backcheck in two different locations 2mm apart. Changing the wind resistance of a car just a little bit will change it's acceleration, time and speed at the end of a 1/4 mile Drafting is a race drivers trick to save fuel and ride the coat tails of the driver in front of him. It takes the $250,000 Porsche 17' to reach 60 mph, and it has a very low co-efficient of drag. Newton nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu
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