Drafting In Car Racing

Drafting is the benefit of air pressure being lessened in car racing. Throughout all car racing sports, the use of drafting is incredibly useful. It is the most efficient way to lessen the amount of air pressure working against the vehicle. A force that works against cars in racing is drag. Drag is the force that acts on an object in the opposite direction of its motion. There are two types of drags in car racing, friction drag and pressure drag. Friction drag is friction between the surface of an object and the air. Friction drag does negative work against cars and slows them down. The more surface area that is able to be hit by the air the more it will work against the car. The other type of drag is Pressure drag. Pressure drag is caused by the pressure difference between the front of a car and the back of the car. This pressure difference
The lead car puts way less drag on the second car making the second car speed up. The second car doesn’t get all the benefits in the drafting relationship. The trailing car reduces the air pressure against the rear of the leading car, this lessens the pressure drag of the cars and allows them to increase their speed. When the trailing car pulls out from behind the lead car to pass it, it is given a whiplash acceleration. The reason this whiplash acceleration occurs is because the low air pressure air that is there when the cars are bumper to front that gives the trailing car a speed acceleration is created on the side of the car that is passing the other. This low pressure gives less drag to the passing car allowing it to go even faster. This relationship is very successful when correctly done. Sometimes when the race car drivers are trying to position themselves to draft they get too close or get sucked to one side of the leading car creating a crash between the cars and maybe many more cars. On some race tracks that have a lot of turns drafting can rarely be performed and when it is attempted it is