Road cars faster than race cars. Is this wrong?
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Just looking at how things are going with the new 1340bhp Koenigsegg wasting the Suzuka lap record (and it's hardly the start) and all this PC stuff about maximum safety slowing down race cars, but no-one seems to worry about this with road cars [that are not required to be able to go faster than 70mph]. Isn't it about time race cars were released again back to the aura that made you go "wow"?
Just seems all a bit feeble to me. The passion, soul and how can an oil billionaire be allowed to go faster than someone with proven talent?
Erm, discuss.
Edit: faster than race cars! Mods: please save me!
Just seems all a bit feeble to me. The passion, soul and how can an oil billionaire be allowed to go faster than someone with proven talent?
Erm, discuss.
Edit: faster than race cars! Mods: please save me!
The point was, compare hyper cars of 20 or 30 years ago to an F1 car.
I'll pick 1985. F1 cars were running 1000-1500bhp and 3-5G in corners and hyper cars were around 450bhp and had little downforce - around 1G in corners. Forget brakes, weight, handling... Top race cars were on a different planet. Now the gap seems to be a lot closer, seemingly almost entirely down to "safety" grounds.
One wonders what makes road cars almost as safe as F1 cars these days. No wait, they're not.
I'll pick 1985. F1 cars were running 1000-1500bhp and 3-5G in corners and hyper cars were around 450bhp and had little downforce - around 1G in corners. Forget brakes, weight, handling... Top race cars were on a different planet. Now the gap seems to be a lot closer, seemingly almost entirely down to "safety" grounds.
One wonders what makes road cars almost as safe as F1 cars these days. No wait, they're not.
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