Post by @NewsHund@mastodon.social

2026-10-16 03:22 UTC

@QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social @return2ozma@lemmy.world I’ve always heard a Formula 1 car could drive upside down if it could get up to speed. I watched this a couple of times and have some questions about how it could have worked. But I also don’t really care enough to find out if this is more AI trickery or a car-shaped shell around some other kind of mechanism. Or whether he really did it. Nazi that he is.

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@NewsHund@mastodon.social 2026-10-16 03:24

@QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social @return2ozma@lemmy.world Ahhh…it’s a fan. Yay.

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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-10-16 03:47

Well those are rockets so yeah it’s not an actual car.

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@divVerent@misskey.de 2026-10-16 04:00

@return2ozma@lemmy.world @QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social @NewsHund@mastodon.social A F1 car theoretically could drive upside down at about 200 km/h. It generates enough down pressure to carry its own weight at 150 km/h already, but would have zero tire grip in that state, so it would spin out, fail to keep accelerating, and eventually drop down. Combustion engines usually cannot handle being upside down for an extended amount of time (just start thinking about how the fuel tank has its exit to the engine at the bottom, but the oil gets into trouble too), but one can, if desired, design engines that can handle it (at the expense of more weight) - Project Inversion is trying to - or build electric, avoiding all this trouble.

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