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Originally Posted by Hoosier Daddy
A car that runs flat-out, or as fast as possible, is what's important in terms of aero. An IndyCar runs as much tail down as it can for straight away performance, just like a stockcar on a super speedway, but tail up nose down makes more downforce for cornering. It's a compromise based on what optimizes lap time for differing track configurations. High downforce thus high nose down rake for low speed tracks like LRP and low downforce and low rake for high speed tracks like Road America.
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Definitely. We would run the car nose up at Lemans, but over here nose down for downforce. We always watched splitter height in the corners though, and worked to keep it fairly level, but of course drivers always like to take the curbs, but that's another story, lol.