straight line

“Today, who knows if we could have won? But if we didn’t pit we would have been leading at the restart. And the first 30 laps controlling the place with Lando behind. We had good straight-line speed as well. P2 would have been a minimum.”

This creates a larger gap between the main plane and the flap, which may reduce drag and increase straight-line speed.

When a straight-line jet stream blows in from the Pacific Ocean.

When a straight-line jet stream blows in from the Pacific Ocean.

Equally problematic, though, was that too many of those fastballs — all of them of the more straight-line, four-seam variety — were too hittable at the MLB level.