Would you believe that, over distance, an F1 car is only just quicker than an M5? And this is not a BMW stunt either -- as proved by Dutch Formula 1/Red Bull driver Robert Doornbos in his RBR office.
He drove the length of a dead straight 20 mile dike, the Afsluitdijk. The speed trial's previous record was 201mph, which was set by an M5 -- yet Doornbos managed only to drive 0.4mph faster over the length of the run.
Maybe he was too slow on the on-ramp? Judge for yourself -- there's a link to the video below.
The road on the dike sits just 20 feet above sea level, and dams off the Zuiderzee, a salt water inlet of the North Sea, and turns it into the freshwater lake named the IJsselmeer. Opened in 1933, it protects Amsterdam, among other places.
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