Everyone knows Formula 1 cars are fast, but exactly how fast are these race cars traveling down the track? Which one do you think is the fastest?
Celebrating 81 days away from the th Running of the Indy presented by GainbridgeLife with our 81st winner: ArieLuyendyk. IndyCars are definitely one of the fastest cars out there. The IndyCar race is slightly different, as most of the cars are set up similarly for a more level playing field. As is the case in many series, WTCR employs Balance of Performance measures to ensure that racing is close throughout the field. In , Esteban Guerrieri took pole at the Hungaroring with a time of 2m When F1 last undertook a wet qualifying session at the same track Lewis Hamilton was on pole for Mercedes after a 1m Acceleration: surface dependent.
In , a stage of WRC Rally Sweden was cancelled over fears that the latest generation of cars - which had more power, better aerodynamics and centre differentials - were driving too quickly to be considered safe. Ott Tanak completed special stage 9 at an average speed of These kinds of speeds are nothing compared to what you see in other forms of motorsport, although pitting track driving against rallying in this sense really is like comparing apples and oranges.
Kris Meeke holds the record for the highest average speed over a World Rally Championship event, averaging The regulations state that cars must be based on front-engined, rear-wheel drive production vehicles that have four seats and are sold in Australia, and in the field consisted solely of Ford Mustang GTs and Holden Commodores.
The Bathurst - a 1,km race - is the pinnacle of the Supercars Championship calendar, with the track record set by Scott McLaughlin in with a 2m This represents a big shift away from the outgoing structure, which has seen LMP1 cars and more specifically, the hybrid entrants in that class pushing the boundaries of speed in recent years.
Kamui Kobayashi set the lap record in qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in when he clocked a 3m After Porsche pulled out of the WEC at the end of , it developed a no-holds-barred version of its prototype racer, dubbed the Hybrid Evo. The modified car destroyed several lap records, including a 1m Super Trofeo is a single-make series in which competitors race against each other in identical Lamborghini Huracans.
The Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo - which is based on the production version of the road-going supercar - is said to generate hp from its 5. The Isle of Man TT has a reputation as one of the most dangerous races in the world, with riders regularly chasing mph in sections of the Snaefell Mountain Course. In Kawasaki rider James Hillier briefly clocked mph The overall lap record is held by Peter Hickman, who averaged Hickman set the benchmark on his final lap of the six-lap TT Senior race.
Photo by: Motorsport Images. The National Hot Rod Association NHRA was established in back then drag racers could hit speeds of mph in around nine seconds, the kind of acceleration some modern, road-legal supercars can achieve comfortably.
The next class down from Top Fuel is Funny Car, and while they use the same source of power, their wheelbases are shorter and they tend to bear a closer resemblance to production vehicles. Funny Cars can also breach speeds of mph, and can finish runs in as little as 3. Newly-reconfigured Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City replaced Monza as the temple of top speed in , with the high altitudes of 2,m above sea level, producing highest recorded season-high speeds, Pastor Maldonado's staggering Second on the list was Sebastian Vettel with And then at new Baku Azerbaijan Formula 1 city track produced record top speeds at the end of the straight.
This figure is in excess of speed trap figures from F1's other high-speed venues, Mexico and Monza. Baku's top speeds are more of a shock because of the tight and twisty nature of the city track once the cars have left the 2. At the time, it was Juan Pablo Montoya who held the record for the fastest lap in F1 history, but Raikkonen ended the Colombian's year reign with a blistering lap of his own to secure pole with time of Edit: Levis Hamilton get pole position with fastest lap average in F1 history with time of The car was optimized for top speed with only enough downforce to prevent it from leaving the ground.
On this occasion the car did not fully meet FIA Formula One regulations, as it used a moveable aerodynamic rudder for stability control, breaching article 3. The acceleration figure is usually 2. Books to read. This blinding acceleration and deceleration set these cars apart from all others in just about every type of acceleration and deceleration comparisons.
Acceleration and deceleration forces play a huge role in NASCAR and Formula 1 cars and the ways in which their engineers manage these forces. These different race cars are built to not only withstand these forces but to use them to improve performance. Up to about mph, a Formula 1 car generates an acceleration figure of 1.
This force increases as speeds reach mph and beyond, with drivers experiencing 4. To put these numbers into another context, a rocket launch generates 3 Gs of accelerative force. Driver experience a deceleration force of 6. Our everyday road cars, in comparison, only generates 1 G of braking force. The biggest braking action currently in Formula 1 sees drivers braking from mph to 40 mph to negotiate a tight turn.
This heavy braking is achieved within just ft and in only 2.
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