Talk:NASCAR/@comment-27798333-20161023023936

I know this is an old thread, but slipstreaming, or drafting if you prefer, does not work on all cars. It works if the car has a large blunt shaped rear end, not so much with cars that are more streamlined in the rear. That's why you can get behind a semi truck on the highway and take your foot off the accelerator and pretty much stay there. But try to do that behind a Ferrari. It just doesn't work. This past LeMans race, a car got very close to an LMP1 car, and the commentator clearly stated, he better back off, because being in 'the wash' of one of those cars can be very dangerous.