• RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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    16 hours ago

    That is very fast! Just looked up average race speeds of F1 cars, which is around 200km/h.

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      16 hours ago

      That includes corners, which can be as low as 50kph, which will lower the average significantly over lap… Straight line they are approaching 340kph on the longest straights, but have hit nearly 380kph in recent history.

      They would be a lot faster if they were allowed to tweak the gear ratios for each circuit rather than them being fixed for multiple circuits, and they didn’t have a fuel flow limit per lap. A twenty year old car nearly hit 400kph in non race spec.

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        12 hours ago

        “AT THIS SPEED, THE TYRES WILL BLOW UP IN 15 MINUTES! BUT THAT’S OK! THE FUEL WILL RUN OUT IN 12!”

        • Captain Slow, Bugatti Veyron Speed Test.
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          12 hours ago

          I would love to know how many owners actually ran out of fuel or near as damn did doing long high speed runs