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Just wondering, could you use a front-wheel drive car and do wheelies with the back of the car in the air? :lol: Also, searching the forum, I found something about pop-up spoilers on the 3000gt and 3400s. I tried this but couldn't get it to work. :boggled: Any help would be appreciated.
 
You'd never get enough upforce to suck the back of the car off the ground. What makes cars wheelie in GT3 (and, in M/B's case, at LeMans) is that the front of the car gets pushed up on a "ramp" of high pressure air. But to lift the rear would require a wing made to generate lift, like an airplane wing.
 
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Can someone explain this to me?
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In that race (and a couple of other races) the was an incident involving a Mercedes (i think) where too much air got under the front. It started to do a wheelie and then took off. It went 50ft in to the air and landed about 100ft away in the forest.
 
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You mean like this? Elliott Sadler got turned around at 190 mph and the upforce from under the car picked his car up in the air like a speedboat, and he flipped a couple times. It is basically the opposite of what happened at Le Mans.
(don't worry, Elliott walked away. These full-body stock cars do have their advantages when it comes to wrecks)

DQN, you're right, it was a CLK-GTR. I remember watching it on speed channel, it was shortly after I got Need For Speed III.

If you run an FF with zero downforce rear and 255 downforce front, and run reverse-ratio gears in your transmissions, it could be done. I might try it tonight.
 
It wasn't a CLK-GTR, it was a CLR, two different cars, the CLK-GTR's and CLK-LM's didn't have that design fault that allowed the air to lift it up like that, the CLR's while potentially far better proved a dissaster.
 
No, actually, he was shaken up, but not seriously injured.
 

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