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There is a racing car at a car museum, it was either BMW or Mercedes, which was mounted to the ceiling because it had a suction fan that would, in theory, let it do that.
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The three famous examples of this tech are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_2J

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46#BT46B_%E2%80%93_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Murray_Automotive_T.50

I don't know of any others, and it's a horrible idea for anything used on public roads.. even on the race track these cars were notorious for leaving a cloud of debris/dust in their wake


Are you sure it wasn’t the Porsche 956?

Oh it might have been! I visited them all, but long ago.



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