Ferrari Mailing List: Re: BUGATTI WOW ! - (NFC)

[E M (pokiebaron]

2009/3/30 LarryT <l02turner [at] comcast.net>

Many of the Group C cars had huge down force in their days.  I remember
watching as they would run on street courses at times.  They would have to
weld down the man hole covers before races.  Once, I remember seeing, a car
sucked a welded down manhole cover up, and smashed it in two!!  As I
remember, these were not full skirted cars either!! Wow

I think we've come a long way in the past 20 years of finding creative ways
to keep the cars on the ground, without the some of the penalties of down
force robbing hp.  Still, the faster you go, the more hp you need, and once
over 200, the hp needs start to go up, REALLY fast for small gains in speed.


Ed
911SC

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>
> One cmment I found interesting was <<modern F1 cars are faster than the
> +1300HP turbo cars of the 1986 qualifying sessions>>
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> Later ya'll -
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "E M" <pokiebaron [at] gmail.com>
> To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] BUGATTI WOW ! - (NFC)
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>
>  I think the record was set by a Peugeot, of 253 mph, or 406 kmh.  I think
>> they put the  twisties in Mulsanne straight, late 80's real 90's to help
>> keep top speeds down.
>>
>> I think the old porsche 917s were touching up near 240 mph, but I can't
>> find
>> any official times for it posted.
>>
>> The thing with the BUG, if you drive it like that, you'll be out of gas in
>> about 12 minutes, if you start with a full tank, and tires probably not
>> long
>> after. lol.  Still, it is quite the engineering accomplishment for a road
>> car!! ;-)
>>
>> Ed
>> 911SC
>>
>> 2009/3/30 <red5hilser [at] aol.com>
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>>  Does any Tifosi out there know what the all-time top speed reached on the
>>> straight at Le Mans is? I think it's not too much slower than this. Just
>>> wondering . . .
>>>
>>> Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
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> LarryT
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