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Maybe for keeping a safe distance without having to eyeball it, or for avoiding the fumes.
by read_if_gay_ 7y ago
Maybe for keeping a safe distance without having to eyeball it, or for avoiding the fumes.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoMight want to use an electric car to avoid the fumes. I do wonder if the car, even a larger distance ahead, does more for drafting than a human in front of the runner.
- cehrlich 7y agoI don't have the source on hand, but there was an interview with the person who designed the unusual reverse-V shaped pacer formation, where he said that if it was up to him there wouldn't be a car in front of the runners. The goal is to have as much air as possible hit the front pacers.
- jeff18 7y agoAccording to the article, it was an electric car.
- canucker2016 7y agoThey used an Audi e-Tron car for pacing the Ineos 1:59. For the previous attempt at the Breaking 2 event at Monza racetrack, they used a Tesla as a pace car.
- jdietrich 7y agoRoad cyclists frequently draft behind a car or motorcycle; motor-paced racing used to be a very popular discipline and motorcycles are still used for pacing the Keirin event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-paced_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor-paced_racing
- rtkwe 7y agoCould be a requirement to stay a certain distance back to keep the car from performing too much of the drafting maybe?
- maxlamb 7y agoThe pace car was a Tesla so no fumes :)