Re: Rotation Drag

["Joe & Lynne Lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>]

Interesting---So if an open wheel car moves fast enough you could get a
sonic boom from the top of the tires?

Lance


 When you think of the
> tops of Joe Laws and Fast Freddies tires going through the air at nearly
the
> speed of sound I would think that might add greatly to the wheels drag -
> May-be it's the fact that the bottom of the tire has no foreward speed-
Saw at
> a place I've forgotten that the Cd for the frontal area of a tire is .58 .