Do flat floors help In drag racing?

[didyamum321]

I just wanna know if flat floors shave seconds off your quarter mile time ? Or do they slow you down? Please let me know because I'm wondering what helps or not :/

 

[ArticTrust]

Slow you down, it's added down force.

 

[didyamum321]

Slow you down, it's added down force.

So it's added downforce with a flat floor... Haha good riddens :3 thanks my man

 

[ArticTrust]

So it's added downforce with a flat floor... Haha good riddens :3 thanks my man

Yep, an example I can give of the effects in real life is stick your hand out of a car window at speed. Go flat then vertical, you'll feel much more drag in the vertical position because air is being pushed around a much larger face, it's why rockets are cones and not shaped like cars, so the pressure from wind won't destroy it, put a large metal bar on the bottom and that pressure pulls the car was down.

 

[didyamum321]

Yep, an example I can give of the effects in real life is stick your hand out of a car window at speed. Go flat then vertical, you'll feel much more drag in the vertical position because air is being pushed around a much larger face, it's why rockets are cones and not shaped like cars, so the pressure from wind won't destroy it, put a large metal bar on the bottom and that pressure pulls the car was down.

Couldn't of said it better