A term used to describe the relationship between the downforce a car generates, and drag.
Stright line speed depend of aero efficiency. Normaly, with more downforce generated by wings, more drag is generated.
Some specific parts of the F1 car can create an exception. Diffuser, for example is very efficient in creating downforce with small drag penalties.
Some useful links:
- f1technical.net, , a great site with a lot of technical information’s and explanations. Site is updated daily with news from F1 word.
- autosport.com, This site is a legend. A bible for racing lovers. News from all around the word. Unfortunately, to get access to all news, interviews and to open the site completely you should be subscribed to Autosport magazine. Anyway, great read.
- f1network.net, Good read. Fan’s from every team can find his team forum. For me, like Ferrari fan, forum is the best Ferrari forum, very visited, with great threads.
- Ferrarif1forum.com is another great Ferrari site for Ferrari fan’s like me. Site is relatively new, but great fun, with great discussion, news and Ferrari F1 car Development topic. Twitter and Facebook are also there.
- f1.gpupdate.net, Site with fresh news from Formula 1
- planetf1, another site with many different articles, news and statistics. Biased toward British teams, but anyway good read.
- gurneyflap.com, Great history site. You can learn a lot from this site. Pictures, cars and many many more. Great.
- fia.com, La Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, representing the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users. Head organisation and ruler in auto sport.
- wikipedia.org, I don’t believe that I have to tell you anything about this site. It’s not about Formula 1 technology, but you can learn a lot about that too.
- suttonimages.com. source of great images from autosport
- carbibles.com, a great site for normal car users. Here you can find explanations of almost everything about your car and how it works. Technical reviews and explanations of some in-car gadgets.
