Hi Dan,

Welcome to the forum.

Working in a hydrolic environment (air), there is not enough resistence to support your arguement. It's too dilute. If you were in a H20 environment the importance of aerodynamics would be raised to the level you give it because it would be the limiting factor for speed/power. And should be optimized in every case.

Your worse example of aerodynamics: Cobra did quite well with a racing wind shield, splitter, air dam, and wing.

The wide track and wide tires are necessary for racing speed. If there is less stability (e.g. sliding in curves), speed is lost. I wish the "Stig" could chime in on that arguement.

Aerodynamics is important but not to the extent you suggest in this arena. Like someone else said, "it is a balancing act". Power to weigh ratio trumps aerodynamics in most cases.

I agree, also, there should be a separate thread to put Dave's updates. WEK.