The ABCs of Flying Cars: Aerodynamics, Brad and Carl
It is much harder to keep cars on the ground than it is to keep drivers from wrecking each other. You can't call 'air' to the hauler...
View ArticleA Quick Post on Why Cars Go Airborne
A quick post for my friend, @TheOrangeCone that I'll expand on later (I have theater tickets tonight!) @TheOrangeCone asked why Kurt Busch went airborne in the Talladega crash. The answer is the same...
View ArticleKeeping Racecars on the Racetrack
Ryan Newman escaped NASCAR sanctions for his comments immediately after being discharged from the infield care center at Talladega. “They can build safer racecars, they can build safer walls, but they...
View ArticleThe Flap over Roof Flaps
Why Roof Flaps? Roof flaps (the invention of which I detail in my book The Physics of NASCAR) help keep cars on the ground. This is necessary because of Bernoulli’s law, which says basically that:...
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Daytona, Catchfences and Flying Cars
As some of you know, I was in New York for the weekend celebrating my anniversary, so I’m just now catching up on the weekend’s accident at Daytona. Note: Some basic information about catchfences is...
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Drafting: Regular and Bump
I looked through the blog and realized that I haven’t really blogged about drafting. I’ve blogged about all the rules NASCAR’s enacted in the last couple of years to try to control drafting, but not...
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