Comment by HarHarVeryFunny
17 hours ago
A standard F1 car (without fan) could in theory drive upside down, since at high speed it generates multiple times it's own weight in downforce.
However neither the engine, nor anything else, is designed to operate upside down, so it wouldn't be able to do it for very long.
The Spierling can do that without moving.
https://youtu.be/g6LYcgaQ46c?t=50
That's impressive!
I imagine it must be able to do some comical cornering.
Yeah it now holds a bunch of lap records on tracks without very long straights (where it looses due to not that high top speed). It also took the Goodwood hillclimb in 2022 and held it for a couple years.