This Race Car Just Fell Off the Ceiling

This race car just fell off the ceiling. It was driving up there on purpose. Its wings work like airplane wings, flipped over. Instead of lifting, they push down. And the faster it goes, the harder they push. At fifty miles an hour, it peels right off. Around ninety, the push matches the car's weight. It barely hangs on. At a hundred and thirty, it's double. Now the tires grip the ceiling like a road. Then the driver lifts off the gas. The push fades, and it falls. This is a simulation. A race car's wings are upside-down aerofoils, and its shaped floor works the same way, so the air pushes the car onto the road instead of lifting it. That push grows with the square of speed. A former Mercedes F1 technical director has said their car made its own weight in downforce at about 93 mph, so on paper it could hold itself to a ceiling above that speed. At 50 mph the push is under a third of the weight, and at 130 mph it is about double. No winged race car has actually driven on a ceiling. The car, the corkscrew tunnel and the run are illustrations, not a real car or a real test. #Shorts #RaceCar #Physics