Ross Brawn has revealed that the 2021 cars will lose just a fraction of their downforce when following another car closely and that they will be 'noisier and even more powerful'. Whilst work was done to cut the downforce loss for this season, following cars still lose roughly 50 per cent of their downforce due to the dirty air coming off the car ahead, but that will be dramatically cut to around just 5 per cent thanks to the reintroduction of ground effect, which is where the floor is used to generate downforce, rather than the surfaces of the car. 'At the moment, we have a car running in CFD and windtunnels which when they are behind another car loses 5% of its downforce,' Brawn...
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