Is having a wing on my car at track days with the top down counterproductive?
Does it jack up and scramble the air flow?


thanks

 

your hair will create a lift and vacuum in the cabin.

 

Even if the airflow was scrambled, the wing would still be giving you downforce so it would still be better than no wing.

Obviously top up would be better, because you would most likely be getting air with more of a clean stream, but the air is still very scrambled coming off of the softtop.

 

Duh, he'll be wearing a helmet

 

I figured i'd ask. I didn't know if it may create something that harms lap times as oppose to helping them.

persay too much downforce or maybe even lift

 

with the consistancy of a human being, i'm quite sure little mistakes here and there will be the bigger reason for changes in laptimes.

 

Does human error compensate for the drag differences of having top up vs top down, though?

 

absolutely it affects lap times. The car is MUCH slower w/ the top down.

wing or not doesn't matter.

 

All this time, I've been running top down. Not like my laptimes really matter ... yet.

I heard that if you run at high speeds with top up, you may damage your frame because of the parachute effect. Has anyone experienced anything like this?

 

I thought there was a new rule that requires convertible tops to have tops up