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Bristol Motor Speedway

Turning, G-Forces and Banked Tracks.

2013-09-27 Diandra 3

Dover is a fascinating track – twenty-four degrees of banking, but only a mile in length.  A student approached me with a question:  Higher-banked tracks generate higher centripetal forces – so why doesn’t the track […]

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Bristol Motor Speedway

Why Turning is Hard

2013-04-20 Diandra 2

Why Turning Fast is Hard If Isaac Newton had been a racing fan (which I’m sure Sir Isaac would have been if had cars been invented in the 1600’s), he might have stated one of […]