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Originally Posted by STLPCA
My guess is he got too close to the car in front given the speed, caught the draft, lost front downforce and as the gap opened up he was accelerating back into the airstream and the unloaded front end became airborne as any good airfoil will. It's not a problem we'll have in the Cayman.
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I agree. I'm pretty sure that's what happened. I was a Corner Captain at Road
Atlanta during the CanAm days. I watched a McLaran do the same thing on the long back straight*. It got behind a Porsche, lost downforce and went airborn. I had to turn the McLaren back over! I can't remember who was driving. George Follmer? I don't think it was Bruce McLaren.
(*At least it was long back straight then. I haven't been to Road
Atlanta in quite a few years.)