Why are ground effects important on performance cars?

Have you ever wondered what all that junk is for on the underside of a supercar? In truth, there’s a lot of crazy stuff going on down there, and we are far away from the mostly flat-bottomed cars that dominated the supercar and even the racecar design language for decades. This is all because of ground effects. Why are ground effects important on performance cars? We’ll answer that, but first we have to look into what lift is and how it works. Read the rest of this entry >>