{"id":7859,"date":"2025-07-19T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7859\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:52:08","slug":"what-f1-technical-directors-mean-when-they-talk-about-points-of-downforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7859\/","title":{"rendered":"What F1 technical directors mean when they talk about \u2018points\u2019 of downforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked what was meant by \u2018points\u2019 of downforce. One often hears technical directors interviewed on television saying that after a collision resulting in body damage a car may have lost a certain number of points of downforce, but how much is this and what effect could it have on performance?<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s examine how we measure downforce. In the context of a Formula 1 wind tunnel test, a 60% scale model of the car is run in the tunnel at a speed of 50 metres per second (about 110mph), these numbers being the maximum model size and air speed that the regulations allow.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was recently asked what was meant by \u2018points\u2019 of downforce. One often hears technical directors interviewed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}