[vincesanity82]

According to Kevin Kidd, engineer for Elliott Sadler's No. 19 Dodge: "Aerodynamically, what we're trying to do in the cars is get the front splitter as low to the ground and as sealed up as we can. So front travel is the amount the wheels move with respect to the chassis. There's a given travel we're trying to find that puts that splitter just a sixteenth of an inch off the ground because that's where it is making the least amount of drag, the most amount of downforce. Finding ways to do it is the hard part." -- St. Petersburg Times



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[Racer Duck]

a sixteenth of an inch will work at some tracks, but there's a few that are kinda bumpy. that splitter may be bullet-proof, but I'd bet it'll suffer serious damage after 500 miles on a bumpy track riding on a sixteenth inch thick layer of air...