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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1337533" data-attributes="member: 11896">Just curious what you aerodynamic experience is mcglsr2?  Just trying to get a feel if you do this for a living or just did some reading and cut/paste?  If I am not mistaken isn't there two types of drag going on with a spoiler?  There is the drag that is created just from the wind hitting the spoiler(similar to the force you feel from the wind pushing your hand around if you hold it out the window at speed)as well as from the pressure diffrerence it creates behind it?  A wing does not have as much of the drag created from the wind hitting it and can reduce drag by guiding the air but a spoiler like on the top fuel rail car is not going to do anything to increase top speed.  I think a spoiler like That creates the force pushing down just as much from the drag of the air hitting it as much as it does with the pressure difference between them.I think to say that spoilers reduce drag and increase top speeds just is not always accurate.  The articles I posted above talk about how they control the drag to increase down force but they do not say they reduce drag.</blockquote>