If you are in complete control of your car, youare not in the race. This is important because there's an old joke about about charlottek charlotte, where old drivers only know how to turn left. In fact, the track is doing your steering, and not yous. And by the way, it's not a guarantee that you'll always fly off. The air flow around the shapes of these cars affects the effective weight of the car on the track,. which gives you more friction at speeds up to 200mph. If you have fast moving air, there is lower pressure than slow moving air, ok? That's the famous experiment you can do with a strip
What is the Magnus Effect? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore physics through spin, banking, and angular momentum. Why are race tracks banked?
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