Thread: Found out how much downforce the wing puts out
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 10:07 AM
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Default Re: Found out how much downforce the wing puts out
After the Woodward Dream Cruise we went to see Eric Stoddard and he said that initial tests of the Crossfire showed that it was worse that a Jeep Cherokee ( ?) type vehicle in the wind tunnel and design alterations had to be made to make it stable at speed.

The basic shape of the Crossfire is like a airfoil which creates lift. So the airflow over the car had to be disrupted, hence the spoilers and limited ground effects.

Simply put the air flows farther over the top of an airfoil so it is less dense = less pressure than the air that flows under the airfoil and this creates lift This is good for an aircraft but not for a car.
 
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