Comment Formula One (Score 1) 112
Formula One has been leveraging this for a few years now. The entire car is optimized for laminar flow. Just opposite of airplanes. To be snarky (not sharky)... planes go up, cars go down :)
... though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"