IOM TT 2018 Car Lap record run?

[blade7]

jsf said:

Just stating the reality of my experience there. It's not boasting.

Alternatively you could be making it all up...

[anonymous-user]

blade7 said:

Alternatively you could be making it all up...

Why would i do that?

[blade7]

jsf said:

blade7 said:

Alternatively you could be making it all up...

Why would i do that?

Maybe you're all talk and no action....

[Welshbeef]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/...

What horrible news.

[ZX10R NIN]

Not great news but that's Road Racing (not there this year due to doing the Southern 100) thoughts & prayers to his friends/family.

[Wurzel58dog]

I doubt any car would be faster around a motocross circuit than a MX bike. Or would it be the latest Audi 'SUVCrossover' ?

[blade7]

Wurzel58dog said:

I doubt any car would be faster around a motocross circuit than a MX bike. Or would it be the latest Audi 'SUVCrossover' ?

Lurking, 5 out of 10. No car could beat a bikes time around the IOM if it had to do wheelies too.

[rampageturke]

round 2?

[Wurzel58dog]

or stoppies for that matter.

[Welshbeef]

Surely a 919 Hybrid Evo LMP1 would utterly demolish a 160mph average speed lap of IOM TT.

[Drumroll]

Doubt an LMP1 car could cope with all the corners. Also drivers often say the "windscreen" distorts your view.

[anonymous-user]

Welshbeef said:

Surely a 919 Hybrid Evo LMP1 would utterly demolish a 160mph average speed lap of IOM TT.

The Audi A6 2.0 TFSI S-line has already done that with a 180 mph lap from a standing start.

....And the current bike record is 135 mph

[meridian]

Drumroll said:

Doubt an LMP1 car could cope with all the corners. Also drivers often say the "windscreen" distorts your view.

Exactly this. Not so much the corners, as the (highly numerous) bumps, crests and dips. Would smash itself to bits...

[Welshbeef]

meridian said:

Drumroll said:

Doubt an LMP1 car could cope with all the corners. Also drivers often say the "windscreen" distorts your view.

Exactly this. Not so much the corners, as the (highly numerous) bumps, crests and dips. Would smash itself to bits...

Why do people think engineers cannot develop a damper to cope with any surfaces?
Take WRC dampers and springs appear to cope with shocking potholes bumps and massive jumps with ease.

[meridian]

Welshbeef said:

Why do people think engineers cannot develop a damper to cope with any surfaces?
Take WRC dampers and springs appear to cope with shocking potholes bumps and massive jumps with ease.

Agreed, of course the suspension technology is there. But it's not on the 'car in question', nor would that car lend itself to such suspension due to the required clearance/travel. I'm discussing the car in question, not cars generally

[likesachange]

Welshbeef said:

Why do people think engineers cannot develop a damper to cope with any surfaces?
Take WRC dampers and springs appear to cope with shocking potholes bumps and massive jumps with ease.

This ^^

Considering the Subaru managed to cope no problem but lacked considerable straight line speed after 120mph compared to the bikes huge time/average speed is lost considering how much is WOT... not even sure it got over 160 much ....

Wonder what something like Mclaren 720s would be like on there?? not close to a bikes time i bet but be interesting considering its straight line pace is not a million miles off a superbike (sub 10s 1/4s) yet very compliant on the road (so ive read)

[thegreenhell]

It's a stupid argument. Why do some people think that F1 and LMP cars can't handle bumps? How many times every lap, for lap after lap, do these cars run over some quite severe serrated curbs and bumps without exploding into a million pieces at every corner?

[anonymous-user]

likesachange said:

Considering the Subaru managed to cope no problem but lacked considerable straight line speed after 120mph compared to the bikes huge time/average speed is lost considering how much is WOT... not even sure it got over 160 much ....

So the answer must be to simply put a bigger engine in the Subaru?

[anonymous-user]

thegreenhell said:

It's a stupid argument. Why do some people think that F1 and LMP cars can't handle bumps? How many times every lap, for lap after lap, do these cars run over some quite severe serrated curbs and bumps without exploding into a million pieces at every corner?

But those aren’t the same sort of curbs are they and those cars are designed to work on a flat race track or they don’t have any down force and the advantage of being an F1 car is lost. God how many times do we need to have the same discussion?

[otolith]

wormus said:

God how many times do we need to have the same discussion?

Until if and when someone does it. No other evidence that it is possible will be accepted.