BAR to run car at Bonneville to test top speed of an F1 car
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Wow, interesting stuff.
[quote=GP.com]
BAR-Honda is to send a car to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in October to see what the top speed of an F1 car can be in an out-and-out burst of speed. The BAR-Honda 007 is expected to be driven by James Rossiter and will probably feature no wings and perhaps a cockpit canopy. The car will also be fitted with a rear parachutee to slow it down after the run, which are being staged as a promotion for Lucky Strike.
The Bonneville Flats are famous for their record-breaking, which began in 1914 when Teddy Tezlaff drove a Blitzen Benz to set an unofficial land speed record of 141.73mph in 1914. In 1935 Malcolm Campbell took his Bluebird to a new record of 301.129mph and the record came down at Bonneville six more times before Craig Breedlove broke 400mph at Bonneville in 1963 in his Spirit of America. In 1964 Breedlove broke the 500mph barrier at Bonneville and a year later he took the record up to 600.601mph. That record would stand for five years before Gary Gabelich's 622.407mph run. This was the last outright land speed record set at Bonneville with the Thrust programmes of the 1980s and 1990s taking place in the Black Rock Desert.[/quote]
[quote=GP.com]
BAR-Honda is to send a car to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in October to see what the top speed of an F1 car can be in an out-and-out burst of speed. The BAR-Honda 007 is expected to be driven by James Rossiter and will probably feature no wings and perhaps a cockpit canopy. The car will also be fitted with a rear parachutee to slow it down after the run, which are being staged as a promotion for Lucky Strike.
The Bonneville Flats are famous for their record-breaking, which began in 1914 when Teddy Tezlaff drove a Blitzen Benz to set an unofficial land speed record of 141.73mph in 1914. In 1935 Malcolm Campbell took his Bluebird to a new record of 301.129mph and the record came down at Bonneville six more times before Craig Breedlove broke 400mph at Bonneville in 1963 in his Spirit of America. In 1964 Breedlove broke the 500mph barrier at Bonneville and a year later he took the record up to 600.601mph. That record would stand for five years before Gary Gabelich's 622.407mph run. This was the last outright land speed record set at Bonneville with the Thrust programmes of the 1980s and 1990s taking place in the Black Rock Desert.[/quote]
Malcolm Campbell's 1935 Bluebird weighed 4000kg and had a 2300bhp engine, it did 301mph.
A Formula One car weighs 600kg and has an 800-900bhp engine.
So it weighs around six times less than Bluebird, will have better aerodynamics/smaller profile and is only 2.5 times less the power of Bluebird.
I think without wings and geared properly it'll go over 300mph. Only revs and gearing will slow it, I'd say 330mph.
A Formula One car weighs 600kg and has an 800-900bhp engine.
So it weighs around six times less than Bluebird, will have better aerodynamics/smaller profile and is only 2.5 times less the power of Bluebird.
I think without wings and geared properly it'll go over 300mph. Only revs and gearing will slow it, I'd say 330mph.
John_S4x4 said:
Didn't a old Ferrari F1 (312?) run with no wings, when it raced an IAF jet ? Dunno how fast they went ? What about the other F1 vs Jet plane drag races ? Can somebody dig any info on the speed reached for these ?
Gilles Villenevue raced against an Italian Air Force F-104 Starfighter in his Ferrari 126c with no wings, but that was a short sprint.
www.gillesvilleneuveslotclub.it/istrana.WMV
On the run he had no wings although due to dubious editing they appear as he spins round to drive back, must be magic FIA spec Ferrari wings
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Monday 18th July 20:23
Bit of an update, their target is to break 400kmh, (248mph).
www.formula1.com/news/3522.html
Still using a track legal FIA spec car.
www.formula1.com/news/3522.html
Still using a track legal FIA spec car.
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