Wind tunnel

And they essentially built a, um, a real-life wind tunnel, like a mu- So if you, if you put a, if you put a car in a wind tunnel, right? If you put, um, you know, like the current IndyCar in like a normal static wind tunnel where all the development's done these days, it's, it's a rolling road.

Um, so, uh, so originally they were like kinda static.

Like, there was a period where the car didn't move, uh, the wheels weren't turning, and you'd blow air at it and you'd measure it, right? But the, the wheel spinning actually understandably creates a huge disturbance in the air, and so to be more accurate, they came up with rolling road, uh, wind tunnels.

But even a rolling road wind tunnel doesn't have things like, uh, exhaust gas, you know, uh, affecting the rear wing sort of thing.

But, um, Ganassi bought this bit of road that was a tunnel, and so what's great about a tunnel, so we go straight line testing all the time, right? You go to like wh- it used to be-

Yeah, it absolutely does.

I mean, back in the day before indoor skydiving, before we had the wind tunnels and stuff that we could do this in, you had to learn by jumping.

There were people that they called sky gods and they were people had like 10,000 jumps.

Yeah.

You learn to master that movement in all orientations, all speeds, positions, all this crazy stuff.

And so that learning curve takes a really long time.

And the wind tunnels have kind of just created cheat codes for that.

Wow.