F40 maximum top speed??

[Welshbeef]

Clearly Ferrari quote it at 202mph however there is a std one which ran the salt flats pushing 221mph only modification is skinny salt lake tyres.


So I guess the question is we know in race trim this car is limited to 10,000rpm yet road guise it's 7,000rpm what revs is it pullin in 5th at 202mph so we can get to a theoretical top speed

Also what was te F40 LM top speed I believe that ran in Le Mans pre the chicanes.


This is my ultimate super car or HyperCard as its over 200mph nothing else comes close so light so raw I guess you expect it to have a stunning engine noise but it doesn't it just does the job exceptionally well if it had F50 noise in the F40 package that to me would live up to the visual pleasure. Still that said it relative it does sound great but not oh my god awesome.

Hope there are some F40 knowledge here

[rumple]

Perhaps the tyres made a difference aerodynamicly,, quite a big one at that speed, the car is also a few years old and as you know older cars sometimes get quicker. Nice car

[redstu]

Saw my first f40 this year at lm.
Parked in bleu car park next to an mp4-12.
Stunning car!

[Scantily]

And breathe.

[rohrl]

I haven't seen pictures of the Bonneville car but you can make quite a difference aerodynamically with skinny wheels, losing mirrors, wipers and taping up panel gaps and unnecessary air intakes.

Combined with the relative ease with which the turbo boost can be increased a bit on an F40 and all the race fuel sloshing about on the flat you might have your answer.

[Krikkit]

Even just decreasing the friction losses from changing to narrow tyres will boost the speed, never mind the other effects above.

Lovely car though, like a lot of folks I think it's my ultimate car purchase. If my Euromillions came up I'd have one... (Hell, 5m and I'd buy one)

[Nedzilla]

Not really standard then.Four big fat tyres will cause huge drag.