The most important thing you have to keep cool in a race car is the driver. So we're now worried about how do we keep the driver's temperature from getting up too high. The other area of cooling is ways that you can force cooled fluid through a shard or something more sophisticated than dumping a bag of ice down your fire scene at the next pit stop.
What difference does the driver make? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the science of NASCAR in Neil’s interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. with the help of physicist Diandra Leslie-Pelecky.
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What difference does the driver make? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the science of NASCAR in Neil’s interview with Dale Earnhardt Jr. with the help of physicist Diandra Leslie-Pelecky.
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