If I pay extra to get a spoiler added to my car, will it actually affect how it drives? Spoiler alert: chances are, the spoiler on your sedan isn't doing much, other than looking sporty. Spoilers are supposed to spoil aerodynamic lift: the force that wants to pull your car off the ground.
They're supposed to push your car onto the road. Ron Miller, an engineering professor at Carleton University who has worked on race-car design. Spoilers can also reduce drag, Agelin-Chaab says. And the less air resistance your car has, the less gas you'll have to burn. The downforce, however, has a negative effect.
Downforce is something that pushes the car down and thus it increases the drag on the car. This drag can reduce the speed of the car. They both have different jobs and different uses. The job of the wing is to create downforce. This downforce allows the car to stay on the ground while cornering and travelling at really fast speeds.
Wings are mostly used in high-speed cars. There are other ways to do the job a wing does but using a wing is more efficient and faster. Wing works by manipulating the air going through it. When air passes through a wing it creates two pressure zones, high pressure on top of the wing and low pressure on the bottom refer to the image in the downforce section.
The high-pressure air is what creates the downforce. This all sounds easy enough but it needs to be made almost perfectly as to not have any unnecessary drag on the car. That covers wings and how they create downforce. The spoilers job is to prevent or reduce lift. The lift as we have seen in downforce is the aerodynamic force that wants to lift your car upwards.
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