See that massive, gaping cavity up there? The one in the
back of the joint Aston Martin-Red Bull Racing joint venture, the AM-RB 001? The
place where it’s missing a whole lot of car? Apparently that will help the
track version make a mind-melting 4,000 pounds of downforce. Oh, and four g of
lateral acceleration at speed, like a Formula One car.
For comparison, the McLaren P1 GTR generates a “mere” 660 kilograms of downforce, or
about 1,455 pounds. For the mathematically challenged, that means the track
version of the Aston will generate 2.75 times the downforce of the McLaren.
The downforce number on the Aston is still “unofficial,”
whatever that means, but it comes from a piece about the sheer engineering
force behind the car with the toaster name in the Wall Street Journal. And all that downforce won’t be used
to simply stick it to the ceiling like some sort of weird bug, either. It’ll be
used to snap necks everywhere:
According to King, the 25 track-only copies of the car will
be able to hold the line while cornering at up to four g of lateral
acceleration, at which point the average driver’s helmeted head weighs 100
pounds and wants very much to depart its moorings.
Four G’s worth of turning grip is, frankly, absurd.
Ridiculous. Patentlyoffensive. Especially for a track car that’s based on
a road-legal machine.
Now think of the average person who has the money to buy an
extremely expensive Aston Martin. They will, most likely, be old. They will,
most likely, be on the larger side. They will, most likely, have seen all of
their muscles wither and atrophy into crumbles of dust, as they have so much
money that they paid some poor schmuck to negate the effects of gravity on them
for the past 20 years.
They will, most likely, die.
But what a way to go.
source: http://jalopnik.com/the-physics-behind-the-aston-martin-am-rb-001s-track-ve-1787944099
by Michael Ballaban
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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