In theory, I see no reason why not...a car can only turn at 1 G since that's all that is holding it to the pavement, assuming we ignore aerodynamic effects which are not excessive in a typical street car.

I believe the trifoiler has some amount of vertical fin in the water...which will oppose huge amounts of side slipping forces in a turn.

That said, Formula One race cars can turn at greater than 1 G...in fact they typically hit close to 4 G's in turns & breaking. This is entirely due to the highly efficient aerodynamics on this cars. There have also been publicity stunts in tunnels where an F1 car at speed goes up a ramp and corkscrews until it is driving upsidedown on the ceiling of the tunnel....thus there is more than 1G of "downforce" acting on the car to hold it to the ceiling.



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...the Hobie TriFoiler can pull 2+ g's in turns. An exotic car can barely manage 1 g on the skidpad. This claim can't be true, can it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobie_cat

Last edited by Tornado; 03/02/08 11:56 PM.

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