Sentences with phrase «high downforce cars»

High downforce cars like the IndyCar or the Le Mans prototypes stick to the road beautifully at high speeds, while older cars with older - style bias ply tyres will slip and slide everywhere, demanding a high level of finesse just to get the car slowed down for a corner, let alone with other cars trying to battle you for position.

From here you have a scale to choose from such as a high downforce car for wet weather and high grip in corners, to low downforce for high speed circuits such as Monza.

Not exact matches

At high speeds the car worked great, but at low speed it was all over the place, as it was prone to suddenly losing and then regaining all its downforce as the air pressure moved around - an effect known as «porpoising».

#F1 chiefs sat around scratching their heads about why their high - downforce cars can't race each other, with their backs turned to the screens showing the F2 cars going at it

The new regulations for this year have produced cars that are much faster than their predecessors due to fatter tyres and higher downforce levels.

There were concerns the higher downforce levels would make the cars easier to drive and more planted, but they're still tricky beasts to tame.

It's never easy finding the right balance here because the high altitude has a big impact on the car: you slide around more with the lack of downforce and it makes things quite tricky.

It will be impressive to race on it with these high - downforce cars.

This time, two bodystyles were offered for the same car — although as they were the same length it's not accurate to call them «short» and «long» tails, more like high downforce and low drag.

As a result, the Vulcan doesn't force you to make a leap of faith in the way high - downforce racing cars tend to.

This mode lowers the car, switches it to a firmer damping rate and adjusts the angle of the rear spoiler, producing genuine downforce at higher speeds.

Modifications primarily focused on improving high - speed downforce, reducing the car's weight, tuning the suspension to handle the «Ring's «punishing road surface full of undulations,» and adding safety gear like bucket seats to keep drivers in maximum control of the car.

Such is the frightening magic of working with a high - downforce, active - aero car: more speed produces more downforce, which produces more speed and more downforce!

The Enzo's 1,700 pounds of downforce at 185 mph dropped to 1,300 pounds at higher speeds to help the car approach its top speed.

Relish the ground - effects chassis, which increases downforce by 24 percent at 150 mph, making the car carve through angst - inducing high - speed curves with breathless poise and awesome precision.

“ It has always been a dream of mine,» Roland Gumpert declares on his website, «to have a car that has so much downforce, such aerodynamic efficiency that you could drive on the roof of a tunnel at high speed — and this car can.»

So at higher speeds, when the car is headed in a straight line, an electronically controlled motor lowers another set of flaps to stall the diffuser, in F1 parlance, thereby reducing drag as well as downforce.

A new aero package, with a higher rear wing, produces 20 % more downforce (without any increase in drag), and also differentiates the car visually from the gen1 model.

The dramatic sculpture lines you can see on the car's side profile serve a real purpose, directing air from front vents, generating significant downforce, while there's Active Brake Cooling, which directs air to the brake cooling ducts at high speed.

Other styling changes meant to improve aerodynamics and high - speed stability include a downforce - generating front spoiler lip and front bumpers with finishers, side sills pushed out to direct airflow around the car and new rear bodywork surrounding the 4 - ring taillights.

At the same time the car has been lowered by a few centimeters, while downforce has increased, making it stable at high speeds and tight cornering.

Its aerodynamic lines increases the downforce in the frontal part of the car giving it better stability at higher speeds.

The improved downforce on the axle and reduced weight with the aid of the carbon fiber elements does make the car more stable at high speeds.

Even looking at the car, it's immediately obvious that this is no «ordinary» 911 — there's a beautifully sculpted aerodynamic bodykit that produces positive downforce to keep the GT3 firmly glued to the road at high speed.

Wing Chord: 310 mm Wing Width: Up to 2100 mm Fitment: Universal Material: 2x2 Twill pre-preg Carbon Fibre Finish: Polished Carbon Components: Wing, alloy inserts, drop mount tabs Lightweight and extremely rigid high downforce Carbon Fibre rear wing can fit a range of different cars.

Wing Chord: 225 mm Wing Width: Up to 1800 mm Fitment: Universal Material: 2x2 Twill pre-preg Carbon Fibre Finish: Polished Carbon Components: Wing, 2 x end plates Lightweight and extremely rigid high downforce (straight) Carbon Fibre rear wing designed by aerodynamics writer and designer Simon McBeath that can fit a range of different cars.

With the rear «blown spoiler,» which tailors air pressure around the car's tail by connecting the rear wheel wells to mesh - covered vents on either side of the luggage compartment liftback, the aero bridge creates stabilizing, high - speed downforce.

The car's enhanced aerodynamic design includes an extending rear wing providing more downforce at high speeds and is equipped with rear - wheel steering for increased agility and stability.

The lower borders of the air inlets are formed by a sports car spoiler that optimizes the downforce of the Passat CC at higher speeds.

The GT - R NISMO generates more downforce than any other Nissan production car to date, which results in exceptional high - speed stability.

Two aero packages are offered with the car - a low wing that is claimed to generate 70 % more downforce than the Z06 and an adjustable high wing that Chevrolet claims to generate over 431 kg of downforce at the rear.

659 PS and 881 Nm of torque from a 6.2 liter supercharged pushrod V8 and a soundtrack like no other as you can see, the aerodynamic downforce generated by the Z07 Performance Pack is holding back the car at high speeds, but it's also the reason for it being an absolute monster on the track!

With its high - power, high - downforce, low - weight philosophy the Aston Martin Valkyrie promises to redefine the limits of road car performance.

And the rear has also been optimised by the MANSORY specialists in terms of design and aerodynamics: The diffuser built into the new apron stabilises the car at high speeds and in conjunction with the beautiful rear spoiler, generates additional downforce on the rear axle.

The large rear spoiler, which generates downforce during high - speed driving, distinguishes the car, giving it aesthetically balanced proportions.

(High - downforce vs. low - downforce setups): «Fundamentally the balance of the car is very similar.

After running the cars with the highest levels of downforce possible for first part of the year, it was a bit of a culture shock to how the car needs to be set up and how it needs to be in order to go fast around 8.3 miles at Le Mans.

That requites high - speed balance and making sure your car has good downforce.

For optimal stability, the system reduces lift by a factor of three and produces the equivalent of 40 kg of rear downforce at very high track speeds without detracting from the car's carefully honed aerodynamics designed to achieve a low CdA.

After a season of struggles, particularly on the high - downforce circuits, the Audi R8 GRAND - AM has been given a crucial Balance of Performance adjustment ahead of this weekend's Continental Tire Sports Car Festival at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

The downforce created by the aerodynamics makes the car more stable during high - speed cornering and the stickier tires make the car capable of handling 1.2 lateral g forces (compared to 1.04 for the last ZR - 1).

Extensive wind tunnel testing helped produce a wind - cheating profile with a drag coefficient of 0.31, a remarkable achievement given the degree of downforce the car creates at high speed.

Also added a splitter that takes care of the downforce, keeping the car as flat on the road as possible, in high speeds.

And the high - mounted rear wing on the GT3 Cup car is nine inches wider than the wing on the RS version, for more downforce.

The discreet roof spoiler works well with the car's lowered stance and at higher speeds, one can really feel the downforce working to keep the little car planted.

One - piece body - color performance spoiler showcases the rear design of SRT models while adding downforce that balances the car at high speeds.

Among the Senna's aerodynamic suite is a rear wing that can be adjusted by about 20 degrees to essentially endow the car with either high - speed downforce, braking drag and a Formula One - inspired «DRS mode» for straight line speed.

«We want high - speed downforce in the corner to give the car stability and to give the drivers confidence.»

The car's aerodynamic design includes an extending rear wing providing more downforce at high speeds.

Overall, the GT - R Nismo's new shape generates the maximum amount of downforce among all other Nissan production cars which makes it stable at high speeds.