It might have something to to with slip streem and don't say if you liked it or not!!!
2006-08-10 10:26:47 · 4 answers · asked by MICHELLE J 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Sure. The majority of resistance that a car experiences at high speed is from air. By pulling in behind a leading car, a driver is 'drafting', which is staying in the slipstream of the car in front of it, which means that the car needs less power to maintain the speed and therefore has more in reserve for passing. This is a real move in auto racing, though usually not as theatrical as shown in the movie.
2006-08-10 10:34:00 · answer #1 · answered by Nick N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The slingshot is when the second car is higher on the track than the lead car and gets a lot of momentum and speed. It then gains more momentum and speed by gradually making a left turn and going through the wake of the first car and has even less drag. He then pulls to the bottom of the track and passes the lead car. What's going on there aerodynamically is that the slingshot car is acting like a solo car when it's up high. It has much less drag, and it's also going downhill. This is almost always done in the corners so that it has a lot less drag when it passes the wake of the first car. It also has enough momentum to go ahead and pass the first car.
2006-08-10 17:33:43 · answer #2 · answered by Duds331 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see in racin' if u git behind someone u will begin to pick up speed b/c ur draftin' off of them and a slingshot is when u draft until the right moment when u git really close then shoot left or right and pass them
2006-08-10 17:33:11 · answer #3 · answered by fred 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're hiding from the wind resistence that the guy in from of you is wasting his gas on, you can still accelorate and then pop out from behind him to pass...like a sling-shot. oops, that's Days of Thunder. sORRY tOM cRUISE.
2006-08-10 17:34:05 · answer #4 · answered by Tabulah Erassa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋