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Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / course automobile | | English term or phrase: losing the slipstream | You come out of Turn Three, you just managed to right your car without **losing the slipstream** … and then you go with all you have into the Four so you’re best positioned on the following straightaway
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| | | perdre l'aspiration | Explanation:
de la voiture qui précède
splitstream = draft
"22 sept. 2010... à se suivre pour ne pas perdre l'aspiration et abîmer leurs pneumatiques. .... Les indications de l'ingénieur de course sont également très ... ceux qui apprécient la conduite proposée par une simulation automobile, ...
http://www.zone-numerique.com/test_188_Test_F1_2010_LA_simul...
"Following in the slipstream of another motor vehicle, or "drafting", allows for significantly improved fuel efficiency due to reduced atmospheric drag. Truck convoys are a common example, traveling highways in a single-file queue several vehicles long. Auto racing drivers also draft in order to conserve fuel, the better to gain competitive advantage by reducing the frequency of fuel stops or, more often, to reach a higher speed before pulling out to attempt to overtake another driver."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream
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17 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 perdre l'aspiration
Explanation:
de la voiture qui précède
splitstream = draft
"22 sept. 2010... à se suivre pour ne pas perdre l'aspiration et abîmer leurs pneumatiques. .... Les indications de l'ingénieur de course sont également très ... ceux qui apprécient la conduite proposée par une simulation automobile, ...
http://www.zone-numerique.com/test_188_Test_F1_2010_LA_simul...
"Following in the slipstream of another motor vehicle, or "drafting", allows for significantly improved fuel efficiency due to reduced atmospheric drag. Truck convoys are a common example, traveling highways in a single-file queue several vehicles long. Auto racing drivers also draft in order to conserve fuel, the better to gain competitive advantage by reducing the frequency of fuel stops or, more often, to reach a higher speed before pulling out to attempt to overtake another driver."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream
| FX Fraipont
Belgium
Local time: 01:47
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