You know you can just get any decent racing simulator game and test your theories? Wherein ‘Forza Horizon’ and ‘NFS’ aren’t decent sims.
You aren’t getting significant advantage from drafting unless you’re at a high speed, i.e. at those same long straights for which gearing is tuned. If the car isn’t close to redlining the last gear when it reaches the speed where drafting allows for overtaking, that means it lost speed that it could’ve been gaining during the acceleration by having closer gearing.
Maybe your hypothesis works in bus racing, I’m not familiar with that.
Why would I need a racing sim? You told me to take a manual car and test it, which I have been doing for the last 10 years…
And mate, I also routinely ride a road (racing) bike. Drafting is extremely noticeable upwards of 25 kph.
Lastly, in in my EV it is noticeable at highway speeds when I lock my adaptive cruise control to the shortest option behind an SUV, which is still quite some distance, but the projected battery capacity on arrival goes up after a few km of drafting.
You know you can just get any decent racing simulator game and test your theories? Wherein ‘Forza Horizon’ and ‘NFS’ aren’t decent sims.
You aren’t getting significant advantage from drafting unless you’re at a high speed, i.e. at those same long straights for which gearing is tuned. If the car isn’t close to redlining the last gear when it reaches the speed where drafting allows for overtaking, that means it lost speed that it could’ve been gaining during the acceleration by having closer gearing.
Maybe your hypothesis works in bus racing, I’m not familiar with that.
Why would I need a racing sim? You told me to take a manual car and test it, which I have been doing for the last 10 years…
And mate, I also routinely ride a road (racing) bike. Drafting is extremely noticeable upwards of 25 kph.
Lastly, in in my EV it is noticeable at highway speeds when I lock my adaptive cruise control to the shortest option behind an SUV, which is still quite some distance, but the projected battery capacity on arrival goes up after a few km of drafting.