Downforce is a critical component in the design and performance of race cars, enhancing their stability and handling at high speeds. By pushing the car down onto the track, downforce enables better ...

Here are some of the other, older vehicles that use fans for downforce like the Tesla Roadster does.

6-20-16 update: Iowa State’s Formula SAE Team faced plenty of engineering challenges this racing season: manufacturing mistakes, Plan B’s, blown parts, overheating and long nights thrashing away in ...

It sounds a little like a trick question. After all, automakers and race teams alike spend piles of cash trying to improve their vehicles' aerodynamics, so why would anyone design a body part that ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

The Chevrolet Intrepid RM-1 didn’t have the power of its turbocharged competitors, but it was a downforce monster. “Downforce is a mind fuck,” says Tommy Kendall. He would know. “Everything you’d ...

A new Tesla patent application describes a two-piece active rear wing that hides flush in the bodywork and can produce up to 700 kg of downforce once deployed. The car in the drawings looks a lot like ...