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1. [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: Dick J <lsr_man@yahoo.com>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:30:18 -0700 (PDT); Which is better? It would seem that if you add, say 500 pounds of ballast, it's a simple addition. If you add a spoiler designed to add 500 pounds of downforce, then you are adding the effective weig; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00051.html (7,305 bytes)
2. Re: [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: "Rich Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:56:12 -0700; Lift, or negative lift equals drag. Weight has to be accelerated. I think Dave D. had a lot to say about killing lift instead of adding downforce to achieve the desired result. RF -- Original Message; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00052.html (7,795 bytes)
3. Re: [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:19:42 -0700; Contrary to some myths, LSR, as we do it is a standing start competition. OK, Drag Race -- Standing Start - 4 mile or 2mile or 1.3... Rick in Neb IV -- check his speed in the 2 1/4. It's *_awesome_*; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00053.html (7,756 bytes)
4. Re: [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: <neil@dbelltech.com>; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:24:23 -0700; Downforce comes at the expense of increased drag, a bad tradeoff in LSR but in the old Can- Am series downforce was necessary to get good handling in the corners. Weight was a penalty, reducing the; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00054.html (7,627 bytes)
5. Re: [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: Flowbench@aol.com; Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:42:27 EDT; Which is better? It would seem that if you add, say 500 pounds of ballast, it's a simple addition. If you add a spoiler designed to add 500 pounds of downforce, then you are adding the effective weig; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00055.html (8,042 bytes)
6. Re: [Land-speed] Downforce vs Ballast Question (score: 1): Author: <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:16:17 -0400; --==0669613040== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It is only my opinion but the way I see it we are still having a drag race though a long one. The bea; /html/land-speed/2007-06/msg00066.html (8,976 bytes)

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