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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
Rake is all about aero, nose down reduces flow under the car and raises the tail further into cleaner air, it's all good.
All race Porsche race cars are raked, if you have the race manuals you can see that they are not set up like street cars and are lower than street cars too.
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Humm...
But street cars are more about coefficient of drag for better mileage and stability at speed. That's why you will notice that the Porsche factory spent a lot of effort designing their cars ( 864s, 993s and 996s ) without any rake with special attention to smoothing the undercarriage with aero panels for better better air flow under the cars resulting in higher top speed, stability and mileage...all good!
Don't be fooled by the "boy racer" race car mentality since much of what they do is also more about looks and relies heavily upon copycat pseudo-technology that can always be explained simply as "goes to reason" and "everybody's doing it so it must be right" or "if I want to remain competitive (fit in), I better do what everyone else is doing, besides, it looks cool".