Lap Times

[Chris Sideways]

I'm bored on this wet Sunday morning so have been surfing YouTube and I've just watched the Champ Cars when they raced at Brands in 2003 the lap times in qualifying were 37.01 which is just unreal but given F1 was almost at its fastest then do we think that they could have got somewhere in the low 30''s and what about getting under a minute lap on the GP circuit as Mansell did (I know the track changed a bit since then) a 1.08 in 1986?

Edited by Chris Sideways on Sunday 31st May 09:47

[Chris Sideways]

I'm bored on this wet Sunday morning so have been surfing YouTube and I've just watched the Champ Cars when they raced at Brands in 2003 the lap times in qualifying were 37.01 which is just unreal but given F1 was almost at its fastest then do we think that they could have got somewhere in the low 30''s and what about getting under a minute lap on the GP circuit as Mansell did (I know the track changed a bit since then) a 1.08 in 1986?

Edited by Chris Sideways on Sunday 31st May 09:48

[Eric Mc]

A bit hard to predict as the Champ Cars never got to run the full circuit and the F1 cars of 2003 never got to run on the Indy Circuit.

[Teppic]

A better comparison would be the Circuit Gilles Villenevue in Montreal, as both Chap car and F1 were run at the venue between 2002-2006

Wikipedia said:

In 2002, Formula One driver Juan Pablo Montoya set pole position for the Canadian Grand Prix with a lap time of 1:12.836. Several weeks later, during the inaugural Champ Car Grand Prix of Montreal, Cristiano da Matta set pole position with a lap time of 1:18.959.

In 2006, the last time Champ Car and F1 ran on the same track, Formula One was 5 to 7 seconds faster than Champ Car. The pole position in Formula One was set by Fernando Alonso in a time of 1:14.942, while Sébastien Bourdais set pole in 1:20.005 in Champ Car. The fastest lap in the Formula One race was 1:15.841 by Kimi Räikkönen, while Sébastien Bourdais's fastest lap was 1:22.325 in the Champ Car race.

Edited by Teppic on Monday 1st June 17:55

[GroundEffect]

Montreal is a poor comparator since it's very high speed whereas Brands Indy is high downforce.

[lj04]

I believe johnny Herbert done a demonstration lap in a F1 car. Something like 32 seconds