mid ohio ALMS pics

[NAZCA C2]

pics of Mid-Ohio ALMS race and support races

[NAZCA C2]

I'll post more pics later, after I resize the them.

[Sweeney921]

i dont know anything about ALMS, so what's with the huge spoilers?

[NAZCA C2]

They are race cars, the spoilers add downforce. Without the spoilers the cars would'nt be nearly as fast in the corners and would'nt be stable on the high speed straights. Unlike ricer car airplane wing spoilers these cars actually use spoilers that work.

[Sweeney921]

well, i know how what a spoiler does, it's just that not every kind of race car has a huge spoiler like that (I can only think of NASCAR at the moment, though)

[NAZCA C2]

More pics, these are pics of the speed gt race.

[NAZCA C2]

ALMS race, I'll add more tomorrow.

[Renesis]

it would be a bad move to be racing without spoiling systems. Without downforce your car has too much lift, even at the 180 mph nascar goes. Result: tires lose grip with the road and you piss yourself as you're careening out of control


last time i checked nascar does have spoilers... in fact i think theres some sort of regulation on them. They're very small and located at the back end of the exoskeleton. I think they're kept at a 70 degree angle or something...

[Renesis]

by the way thats a good pic of the saleen s7r

[Karrmann]

looks like there are a lot of hairpins.

[NAZCA C2]

In most race cars u want the spoiler to be as tall as possible so that the spoiler isn't affected by air coming off of cars in front of u. Spoiler height is usually regulated. Some old Can-Am and F1 cars used really high spoilers so that the spoilers would be in clean air and produce max downforce.

[NAZCA C2]

looks like there are a lot of hairpins.

Here's the track, it's a good technical track.

[bk4uyeah]

beautiful saleen s7r, i cant wait until the ALMS hits Road America - you know i'll be there

[NAZCA C2]

beautiful saleen s7r, i cant wait until the ALMS hits Road America - you know i'll be there

The Saleen was cool, not as loud as I thought it would be. The Vette's and the Murcielago were much louder.

[Matra et Alpine]

.....race car........ NASCAR

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