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Old 12-08-14, 02:32 PM
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Yup!

To the newbies:

Understand that you can save a TREMENDOUS amount of energy by being in the draft. Conversely, if you are out in the wind (like Vogel was) it takes a lot of energy to go fast. At these speeds, Guo was spending about 75% of the energy that Vogel was at the same speeds. This is how Guo (equally matched to Vogel) was able to have some boost left to come around and win.

Lee (the Korean woman) simply isn't fast enough to pass either one of them in a drag race. But, giving her 100%, she can hang on their wheels. To illustrate this I'll tell this story:

At DLV there is a guy that's huge. He's maybe 200+ lbs of muscle. He can go 40+ mph. One night he was at the track doing flying 100s and stuff at over 40mph. There was a 12 or 13 year old girl out there that was fast for her age, but could barely get to maybe 30mph on her own. One person said to her, "Follow Jarick on his flying 100 and see if you can hold his wheel." To everyone's surprise, she did...at over 40mph. That illustrates the power of good drafting. If that were a race situation, she wouldn't have won...but she would have probably gotten 2nd
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