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[selmer]

How fast did the cars really go?
The French Connection
Le Mans
The Blues Brothers
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[Cotty]

selmer said:

How fast did the cars really go?Le Mans I found out that one lap was 13.469 km back in 1970. Using the formula v = s/t where v is the average velocity (speed), s is the distance and t is the time it took to cover the distance, I divided the lap distance by the lap time. v = s/t = (13469 m)/(243 s) = 55 m/s (Which is 123 mph or198 km/h) ]

But as its a film they probably never did a full lap at racing speed. Though obviously there were some high speed bits

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