Difference between quick cars; and F1 cars through the same corner

Alanstrainor · 12-01-2011 9:25pm #1

Click Here.

Incredible!

I just stole this from Reddit; thought it was worth posting though.

Mr Benevolent · 12-01-2011 9:30pm

Amazing. The non-F1 cars may as well be Micras.

messymess · 12-01-2011 9:31pm

That's pretty amazing.

Wouldn't have minded seeing a veyron on the left, just to see how it handles the entry speed, braking and turn!

JerCotter7 · 12-01-2011 9:32pm

messymess wrote: »

That's pretty amazing.

Wouldn't have minded seeing a veyron on the left, just to see how it handles the entry speed, braking and turn!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrhf7npIumU

Whole bunch of veyrons there.

ottostreet · 12-01-2011 9:33pm

God I love formula 1.

Look at the comparison at 0:42 seconds.

Both enter screen around the same time, the F1 car is through Radillion before the normal car has cleared the apex of Eau Rouge

Just realise the first F1 car through is Kimi Raikkonen. *bounces up and down with excitement*

RedorDead · 12-01-2011 9:39pm

Unreal - actually had to check that the F1 cars weren't in fast forward.

Alanstrainor · 12-01-2011 10:20pm

ottostreet wrote: »

God I love formula 1.

Look at the comparison at 0:42 seconds.

Both enter screen around the same time, the F1 car is through Radillion before the normal car has cleared the apex of Eau Rouge

The F1 cars are just bullets compared to anything else that takes that corner. It really is jaw dropping stuff.

amacachi · 12-01-2011 10:23pm

I love this, I've seen cars on the track a million times and seeing an F1 car do it looks completely different to anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyY_hl_hYC8

EDIT: Just realised the video in the OP was from 2009, the season when the cars had had their downforce scaled way back, much faster in 2008. :pac:

Tea 1000 · 12-01-2011 11:01pm

Just as a kind of giving people an idea of how quick they are... the Liana went around the Top Gear track at 1m 44sec roughly. So Lets say that an average 140bhp diesel saloon with a reasonable chassis could do it in maybe 1m 38 sec, which is feasable. Then you take a car like the Ferrari Enzo, which did around a 1m 18 sec. So that means that a top of the range supercar is around 20 seconds quicker round the track than an average saloon, give or take a few seconds. If you think about that for a bit.... That's a lot quicker really!
Then you look at the Renault Formula one car's time around the same track... 59 seconds, so almost 20 seconds quicker than the Enzo!
So as quick as an Enzo is against an average car, an F1 car is that much quicker around the Top Gear test track again over the Enzo! That's friggin amazing!

ottostreet · 12-01-2011 11:27pm

amacachi wrote: »

I love this, I've seen cars on the track a million times and seeing an F1 car do it looks completely different to anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyY_hl_hYC8

EDIT: Just realised the video in the OP was from 2009, the season when the cars had had their downforce scaled way back, much faster in 2008. :pac:

Make it a proper GP qualifying session, and you could easily see a 55 second lap, IMO.

Difference between quick cars; and F1 cars through the same corner

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