mid ohio ALMS pics

[Matra et Alpine]

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.

70s theory.

Fluid dynamics are better understood and creating an integral lift from the body proved more effective than separate wings. Combining the body flow and the wing gave a better over result.

BUT, the real reason the tall wings were made illegal was the willingness for the supports to break - no mater HOW strong they made them, they were breaking. Losing THAT amount of downforce was VERY dangerous back then as the understanding of under-body airflow was so crude that these things were flying wings ( unlike todays inverted wings )

[Coventrysucks]

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

Clockwise or anti clockwise?

[nescar23]

The race was awesome.Although it was dissapointing that there were no 550's (Prodrive) and only one 360. Oh and one Audi R8. No Panoz lmp not even the Batmobile. But watching the Dyson lead the Champion Audi early in the race was good stuff. The audi couldn't pass him, I thought we had an upset coming. The murcielago was awsome, but no match for the Super vettes. The panoz Gt look really good in 2nd till it retired. Well I got some pictures too, I' ll try post later as it will be my first try

[SIMPLETON]

Did you get any pics of the Viper going up in smoke?

[Matra et Alpine]

But watching the Dyson lead the Champion Audi early in the race was good stuff.

THAT made me do a double take and had to go check the ALMS website.

I thought at first it was THIS Dyson cleaning up at the track
45% more power has to make it competitive

[NAZCA C2]

Did you get any pics of the Viper going up in smoke?

Are u talkin bout the car in the Speed GT race???

[SIMPLETON]

Are u talkin bout the car in the Speed GT race???

I might have been. I have a terrible memory and I watched the touring cars, GT and the ALMS race so it's all jumbled up in my mind

[RJ 21]

THAT made me do a double take and had to go check the ALMS website.

I thought at first it was THIS Dyson cleaning up at the track
45% more power has to make it competitive

Good stuff bro. I was like what kind of engine is that!! Quite good (45% more power!!)

[johnnyperl]

The race was awesome.Although it was dissapointing that there were no 550's (Prodrive) and only one 360. Oh and one Audi R8. No Panoz lmp not even the Batmobile. But watching the Dyson lead the Champion Audi early in the race was good stuff. The audi couldn't pass him, I thought we had an upset coming. The murcielago was awsome, but no match for the Super vettes. The panoz Gt look really good in 2nd till it retired. Well I got some pictures too, I' ll try post later as it will be my first try

does anyone know if the Prodrive 550s will be competeing in the ALMS this year? also, they really f---ed up the lambo with that stupid-ass paint job.

[Matt]

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)

Nascar racers don't have big spoilers.

[Matt]

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

I don't think anyone has said it yet, but ALMS stands for American LeMans Series ( I think )

[NAZCA C2]

I don't think anyone has said it yet, but ALMS stands for American LeMans Series ( I think )

You are correct.

[Matra et Alpine]

Good stuff bro. I was like what kind of engine is that!! Quite good (45% more power!!)

Yeah, the 8 cylinder version is a special for the US market.
They couldnt' convince people to buy the smaller more efficient ones.
So they sell it as an 8-cylinder and planning to bring out a SUV version next year

[NAZCA C2]

more mid ohio pics. these are from the speed gt race. all the smoke is from a viper, i don't know what happened.

[NAZCA C2]

pics of pro miata race, formula fords, and alms race.