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But friction is dependent on the pressure between the contact patches. More area of contact reduces the pressure per unit of area. So you’d need more pressure o
by culopatin 7y ago
But friction is dependent on the pressure between the contact patches. More area of contact reduces the pressure per unit of area. So you’d need more pressure on said tires without augmenting mass (because then you’d need yet more friction to accelerate that mass, that’s why wings are a thing, more pressure on the tires without adding mass that you’d have to turn accelerate.
Problem with wings is that they not only add drag but they are not affecting anything at launch. Maybe if you had a big electromagnet under the car and a steel path under the asphalt.
- magicalhippo 7y agoJust pack a giant fan onto it, kinda like an up-side-down hovercraft.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoWhy not going full hovercraft? Use the obsolete tire technology only for transition and slow speeds, thereby eliminating all that rubber dust!1!!
- mox1 7y agoSome race cars [1] put fans under the cars, sucking upward. This effectively created a vacuum under the car and allowed it to stick to the road pretty well. It was more for cornering fast than straight-line acceleration. But modern race cars to use aerodynamic tricks to create downforce, but only to keep the car on the ground at high speeds. 1. https://jalopnik.com/brabham-bt46b-fan-car-making-lemonade-from-lemons-5442597 https://jalopnik.com/brabham-bt46b-fan-car-making-lemonade-f...