downforce

/ ˈdaʊnˌfɔːs /

noun

1. a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards

Example Sentences

The four-time champion later added: "You need every kind of clean air that you can have on a Q3 lap, especially because you're fully on the limit with braking and everything. And I lost a bit of downforce with that. So I went straight on."

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However, the team are optimistic of a better weekend on a low-speed track that is more suited to their car, which runs more competitively when high levels of downforce are required.

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It's much more suited to the tracks that demand more downforce - as in the case of the next event in Singapore on 3-5 October.

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Asked whether his form could continue, he said: "Difficult to say at the moment but the last two weekends have been amazing for us, Singapore a different challenge again with the high downforce and we'll see what we can do there."

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Beyond the individual car set-up - suspension settings, level of downforce and so forth - fundamentally, both cars are in the same specification.

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