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Originally Posted by JSH
There's no need to make this even more complicated. Atmospheric pressure is the sum of the partial pressures of its two gases - oxygen and nitrogen; and atmospheric pressure and oxygen pressure fall roughly linearly as altitude increases. No one in the history of internal combustion engine racing focuses on partial pressures.
Atmospheric pressure, or barometric pressure, is the key element of internal combustion engine power.
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You kinda got it, but you are way off when you say no one in racing focuses on partial pressure. You may know 'partial pressure' by it's common term...density altitude. Ask anyone who races if they care about the DA.