Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-26388545-20161102200910/@comment-28753807-20161107163654

Draft or draught has been applied to many different kinds of pulling or drawing. Compulsory drafting into an armed service or even an American rules Football team, imply pulling that person into service for that organization. Draught animals pulled plows that didn't want to be pulled. The slipstream -- drafts the car behind. I'm not sure how a draft of a plan or sketch came from pulling or drawing toward, unless it is pulling the image from the brain onto the paper. Or, once on paper pulling people to a better understanding of the image.

As for your personal experience with slipstreaming, I would guess that you might agree that your bike had a lower PR than the racer's racing bike, but imagine if your PR was the same as his. Cars being very nearly the same is part of Indy and NASCAR, and I think, probably the Aussie SuperCar, taking the car out of the equation, as much as physically possible, to test driver to driver. I admire those who compete, like that. I also admire F1 drivers who, with fewer rules, no limit to the budget, climb into machines that could easily kill them, and push the edge. (side note, I saw a joke recently about pushing the envelope... no matter how far you push it, it is still stationery - spelled incorrectly on purpose.) I digress..

Anyway, I wonder. Have you wondered if you'd been on the same bike as the expert, what would have happened?

I think the slingshot effect in passing with draft helps passing cars because, one, they have close to the same PR, two, they get a boost and 3, the disruption of the air behind the initially leading car may be pulling it back a bit, either because the air isn't uniform, or because the air changes the grip, and thus the speed.

Regardless, I wish you good luck in your races and ..

Happy Motoring!