What Drags You Back?

The concept of drag is key to understanding vehicle aerodynamics. Welcome to “car aerodynamics 101.”

Matteo Licata
Roadster Life
Published in
4 min readNov 4, 2021

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Wind tunnel testing at Mercedes-Benz (c. Daimler Media Site)

Slipping away

Aerodynamic drag is dependent on the shape of the vehicle, and the “slipperiness” of a vehicle’s body is expressed with a “drag coefficient,” usually abbreviated as Cx or Cd.

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Matteo Licata
Roadster Life

I’ve been obsessed with cars for as long as I remember and, after working in automobile design for a decade, now I’m a lecturer, a published author, a YouTuber