When hearing the words “Car Aerodynamics”, the first thing that usually comes to mind is the huge rear spoiler found at the back of alsmost any race car imaginable. These spoilers provide the necessary downforce to allow these cars to go around corners as if they were on rollercoaster tracks.
The more horsepower your car produces, the faster it can go. But it usually makes it all the more difficult to handle as you take it around the corners. This becomes especially significant if your car pumps out power around the region of 500 horses and up.
If you watch enough car races, you know that losing the rear wing causes all those horsepower to go to waste. The tires spin uselessly as the car goes around the corners, usually causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle, and eventually get eliminated from the race.
But wait, all those high-powered race cars are usually either rear-wheel-drive, or all-wheel-drive. So how do you keep high horsepower on the ground for front-wheel-drive cars?
Chris Rado has done what others would never even want to do with their cars. Why? Because it just looks downright ridiculous! But Chris has simply put some common sense into play and has placed function over form.
If you don’t know Chris Rado, then you don’t know squat about racing front-wheel-drive cars. What Chris and his WORLD Racing Team has done to his front-wheel-drive Time Attack Scion TC is to take that huge rear wing used in all the other conventional race cars, and mount it in front of the car.
That front wing, dubbed the “fwing”, is the reason why Chris holds the time attack record title for the Fastest Lap in a Front-Wheel-Drive (Unlimited Class), with a time of 1:27.30, performaed at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park.
Here’s a video of Chris Rado taking the front-wheel-drive Scion TC around the track. You’ll see the massive front wing in all its glory.
If any of you Philippine Touring Car Championship people are reading this, though your cars don’t produce the same amount of power as Rado’s Scion TC, perhaps this is one modification that you might want to test for good measure.
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