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Ground effect is so neat. This takes it a step further and uses fans to generate downforce on demand

Oh cool, I missed the part where they had fans. Interesting to read about the lateral Gs potentially leading to exhausted drivers, which is basically all professional racing now 😂

The McMurtry Spéirling is actually pretty remarkable. It uses the fans to generate obscene amounts of downforce. This is neat because it can drive upside down, but it can also let you take corners at much higher speeds and breaks all sorts of lap records

Also worth noting McMurtry wasn't the first to play with the concept. Chaparral and Brabham did it back in the '70s in Can-Am and Formula 1 (respectively) and the McLaren F1 road cars in the '90s had a less aggressive version (which is probably where Elon stole the idea from).

Yep absolutely. Fans that generate tons of downforce are so cool. Rocket boy comes in, puts his on a hot wheels track, and claims he built a flying car