Side Drafting #

Introductory thoughts #

Drafting has been explained previously. However, there are

Sidedrafting #

An unintuitive aspect of the flow field is that a body alters much more than its profile when moving through the flow. To take advantage of drafting, a body does not necessarily need to remain in the direct periphery of the lead object. Drafting doesn’t just work along one axis. When side by side, cars influence each others flowfields.

The precense of another car will alter the incident angle of the flow onto the trail car.