Quick quiz for motorsport fans?

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well if NASCAR fans know the question better then its not a F1 question !!!

The front car would stay at the same speed. While the trailing car, not having to be at full throttle to maintain the same speed, since the front car was breaking the air for it, will have a little more speed before the air resistance takes over. Hence the term "slingshot".
Pete Aron described it very well in the movie "Grand Prix".

In nascar with the old model if you would slingshot someone from behind you would take the wind off the front car's spoiler and cause him to get loose. But this year since the new cars have a bigger wing so if you were to do the same thing the car would not get loose because the wing catches the air which gives the car more control and won't make it loose. So I'm thinking since F1 cars have similiar wings to the ones used in nascar I think nothing would happen.

Both cars will slow down because that is how that draft works.

The car in front will initially sloww down to avoid a collision and to negociate the bend/turn and then excellerate again out of the turn to gain and maintain advantage.-I think!
Thought provoking question-have a star.


EDIT: Would the car in front move to the left and then accellerate?

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So, two F1 cars go down the straight nose to tail, at around 180mph the chasing car moves to the right coming out of the slipstream to overtake.
How will the car in front (the car not the driver) react?
NASCAR fans should know this better I suspect.