| eggs2see said: "Getting in a slipstream and then pulling out to overtake has the car hit turbulent air affecting the car" No it's probably my fault for reading this wrong. It's clear now that what you wanted to say was not at all that cars hit turbulence when they pull out, but infact that they will pull to the side or something like that. *SARCASM* I'm sorry but im leaving this thread now, i caught you out on a small mistake and instead of going, "oh yeah your right" you have decided to try and defend yourself and are now just further digging yourself into a hole. This is going no where. |
You have done nothing but make yourself look silly.
Barrichello is behind Vettel. Lets say Barrichello is in the sweet spot slipstreaming and gaining on Vettel. Now because he is tucked up behind him there is less resistance to his car. Now pulling out to the left to overtake will put his car through the MOST turbulent air. Why? because he is going from barely any resistance to full resistance. No at 190mph, even for 1/10th of a second his car will be half in full resistance and half in no resistance. This requires correction alot of the time on the wheel.
Hence in my original comment you tried to take on I wrote "Getting in a slipstream and then pulling out to overtake has the car hit turbulent air affecting the car".
You see in a slipstream you are effectively in less resistance. The turbulance comes from crossing over into full resistance on the car. THAT IS TURBULANT AIR AFFECTING THE CAR. In no way did I interperet anything else. How can you not understand that?
Why do people like Vettel and Button say it's difficult when you get into the dirty air? It's because they lose time in the corners where their car needs downforce. They can no longer keep their normal speed through those corners because of not enough downforce, the car will understeer and miss the apex.
Now will this apply to normal car? Yes. Not to the scale of F1 cars. It would in reality require over 137mph at 7 meters to have any pull on the car. I cant stop laughing, my original statement is fine. People need to learn about what turbulent air is. How it happens and when a car is affected by turbulence.
