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Quote (adey @ April 04 2002,06:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">unless you've got a functional wing/spoiler/whatever, then "the force pulling you to the ground" i believe is known as gravity. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> Do you mean wind/air resistance? (i.e. friction w/ the air)
If I'm not mistaken at those speeds we should be experiencing lift, not downforce/pull.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Actually, some of the force due to drag would push our cars to the ground because of the slanted hood and windshield. Most of the force would be pushing down on your car, gravity plus the downward components of the fluid friction.
I'd say that 159 mph is probably a little too high when you take in drag, because the car's power has to overcome air resistance. A more reasonable mph to get to would probaby be around 140ish. But you'd have to have a really loooonng road to get to that speed. Like HippoSleek said, you coundn't push the gears to their limits unless you were in a vacuum.
And Lances13, what's that constant in the formula for?