Not improbable at all from a physics standpoint. Depending on the wing
configuration, F1 cars can generate downforce up to three times the weight of
the car.
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of O'Farrell,
> Fergus
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:51 PM
> To: 'datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net'
> Subject: optimistic fuel gauge / formula one trivia
>
>
> So now I've heard that if the resistor is blown your gas gauge reads low and
> the temp gauge reads high. Mine both read low, bad grounding maybe?
> I agree with Gordon, the turning G-force seen in F1 makes me get real bored
> watching NASCAR, but that is only an opinion. F1 anecdote: My workplace
> sells carbon/carbon brakes & rotors to F1 teams, and the sales rep was
> recently told that the downforce created was sufficient for the car, at full
> speed, to drive on an inverted surface, if you could only get it there at
> speed. Hmm, modify one of those hi-speed test tracks so that after the 90
> degree banked turn you go up rather than down and drive on the roof?
> Fergus O, pondering the improbable
>
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