Street cars vs. F1 car

[DocWalt]

I think the experience would totally ruin "regular" driving though. Listening to F1 drivers talk about their normal cars is funny, cars that are impressive to me are "meh" to them, lol.

[mb7050]

Those have gobs of power but would still struggle greatly in the tighter areas. An F1 car weighs about 550KG and has a much wider wheel base. It's not just weight and power but the ergonomics of the car as well.

sure . F1 would do circles around that porsche in the tight areas but loong straights its a different story.

[x2percentmilk]

^ Actually, a while back someone did a big line up at the texas mile, ranging from a moderately priced car to various sports cars all the way up to to an F1 car. The F1 car, with unmodified aerodynamics (so still tons of downforce -> brick), still decimated all of them.

EDIT: actually it was a champ car
http://www.roadandtrack.com/tests/co...-standing-mile

[mb7050]

i think champ car is faster than F1 car on the straights might be wrong tho. F1 cars are designed to acceleratie from corner to corner but champ cars are designed to top speed and high speed corners...

funny my favorite champ car in that test too god I love the engine .
2.65-liter turbo V-8
12,300 rpms




Veyron Sang Noir
1/4 mile
9.8 s

lola XB Champ Car
1/4 mile
9.9 s
0-200 mph 20 s

the porsche 917/30 would teach that champ car a history lesson
you know some facts about the porsche
0-62 mph 1.9 seconds
0-100 mph 3.9 seconds
0-200 mph 10.9 seconds

top speed over 270 mph

the thing is no joke