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If you’re going to race, rather than time-trial, you probably want limitations on car size, too. Also, formula one for years has cars leave a so highly turbule

If you’re going to race, rather than time-trial, you probably want limitations on car size, too. Also, formula one for years has cars leave a so highly turbulent wake that they had to introduce a system that gave cars close behind other cars some leeway as to their aerodynamics to make overtakes possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_reduction_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_reduction_system) I guess you’d need something similar, too.

bombcar 4y ago
You could also "golf" it where each contestant runs on the track with nobody else present, and you compare times.
- maigret 4y ago
  That’s basically called Qualifying and is a part of almost all race weekends.
- nikanj 4y ago
  That's not as entertaining to watch, so it won't have the same amount of funding
evandijk70 4y ago
This gives me the idea of a race for autonomous, RC-sized cars. A lot cheaper and safer, but probably just as fun.
- Shorel 4y ago
  I want this, with cameras in the cars and simracing rigs.
OskarS 4y ago
They've actually radically redesigned the aerodynamics of the cars this year to address this exact problem (using ground effect instead of relying so much on wings for downforce). It's had it's own issues (there have been real problems with the cars bouncing on track), but it does seem like it's worked, they can follow much closer for much longer now. DRS is still there though. The basic argument for it is that it makes races more exciting by encouraging overtakes even more (though there is a lot of debate about that).