I don’t know about you folks, but I long ago tired of hearing about aero-loose, aero-tight, and clean air versus dirty air. It seems as though it has been centuries since a driver could race another driver without those forces coming into play. How many times have we seen the second place car get only so close to the leader and then can’t get close enough to pass? The Gen-6 car has given us much to applaud in overcoming that situation and for that I am thankful. But still, we hear it all the time. “Taking the down force off the car behind”, or running too close when passing to the outside on the big tracks pulls the car being passed into a spin. In my opinion, all this technology and newly coined phrases, have taken much of the control out of the hands of the drivers and put it in the hands of the engineers and computer geeks.
