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    Driving cars fast doesn't require real skills or courage. I exclude rally drivers from that statement, they need courage, skills and a healthy dose of insanity.Buggered if I'd get in a car with Paddon in a serious mood!, but I'd go to sleep in a car with Murphy or the like.

    Two wheels at real speed, fist to fist, elbow to elbow, knee to knee fighting to win the line (or control the exit), that will focus the mind like nothing else on the planet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 257weatherby View Post
    Driving cars fast doesn't require real skills or courage. I exclude rally drivers from that statement, they need courage, skills and a healthy dose of insanity.Buggered if I'd get in a car with Paddon in a serious mood!, but I'd go to sleep in a car with Murphy or the like.

    Two wheels at real speed, fist to fist, elbow to elbow, knee to knee fighting to win the line (or control the exit), that will focus the mind like nothing else on the planet.
    Mate rally cars top speed is slow....their proximity to things kinda changes the perspective a bit though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg View Post
    Mate rally cars top speed is slow....their proximity to things kinda changes the perspective a bit though
    Totally about the perspective, the rally car drivers deal with variables the other 4 wheelers do not, in an environment where mistakes have consequence.
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    Anyone here who thinks that driving a car at 300mph is any form of easy, you're in need of a head transplant.

    It's called physics, and a great deal of physics happen mighty fast at that speed, a speed that is not far off 100mph more than the Ferrari F1 cars will be doing at Monza tomorrow night. Just keeping the fucking thing on the ground is a challenge. Think Mark Webber, Le Mans, 1999.

    The reaction time to make an adjustment to the vehicle dynamics at that speed is measured in what, milliseconds? Fractions of a millisecond! You need to be exceptionally confident in your engineers to take on a challenge like that. Which is why it is the record for a road legal production car, even if it does cost however many millions.

    Yes the rally guys are mental. But the difference here is roughly 200mph. That's an awful lot of physics. A properly built cage in a properly built rally car means the physics probably won't get you when you fuck it up, which at some point, you will. But I don't even want to think about what a crash in a Bugatti at 300mph would look like, the damn thing weighs 2 tonnes. It ain't gonna stop in a hurry.

    Nope. It requires titanium testicles all right. God knows I can't get my head around how the spouses must feel about their hubbies doing stuff like this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flyblown View Post
    Anyone here who thinks that driving a car at 300mph is any form of easy, you're in need of a head transplant.

    It's called physics, and a great deal of physics happen mighty fast at that speed, a speed that is not far off 100mph more than the Ferrari F1 cars will be doing at Monza tomorrow night. Just keeping the fucking thing on the ground is a challenge. Think Mark Webber, Le Mans, 1999.

    The reaction time to make an adjustment to the vehicle dynamics at that speed is measured in what, milliseconds? Fractions of a millisecond! You need to be exceptionally confident in your engineers to take on a challenge like that. Which is why it is the record for a road legal production car, even if it does cost however many millions.

    Yes the rally guys are mental. But the difference here is roughly 200mph. That's an awful lot of physics. A properly built cage in a properly built rally car means the physics probably won't get you when you fuck it up, which at some point, you will. But I don't even want to think about what a crash in a Bugatti at 300mph would look like, the damn thing weighs 2 tonnes. It ain't gonna stop in a hurry.

    Nope. It requires titanium testicles all right. God knows I can't get my head around how the spouses must feel about their hubbies doing stuff like this.
    Do you race anything? I do agree it requires balls, but relatively speaking, you are wrong about the physics. He does not need to accelerate hard, brake, corner or in any other way disturb the vehicle. He is on a clean clear wide test track. The only bit that is strange here is that it is a production vehicle, buts its a race car with a number plate. He has a team of engineers there. As driving challenges go, it is middling.

    A top fuel dragster does 330mph in under 400m, there are plenty of top fuel drivers. Top tier mad bastards, but there are a fair few of them.

    Quote Originally Posted by 257weatherby View Post
    Driving cars fast doesn't require real skills or courage. I exclude rally drivers from that statement, they need courage, skills and a healthy dose of insanity.Buggered if I'd get in a car with Paddon in a serious mood!, but I'd go to sleep in a car with Murphy or the like.

    Two wheels at real speed, fist to fist, elbow to elbow, knee to knee fighting to win the line (or control the exit), that will focus the mind like nothing else on the planet.
    What he said, word for word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg View Post
    Mate rally cars top speed is slow....their proximity to things kinda changes the perspective a bit though
    Is it slow when you factor in you are not actually attached to anything? But yeah, top speeds are pretty mild but it sure as hell feels fast.

    I was going to point to drag cars, but you beat me to it. Maybe I am kidding myself, but I would give 300ks in that Bugatti a shot without too much hesitation. Getting to 170mph in 400m, not so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    ..Getting to 170mph in 400m...
    Saw it two weeks ago in the US- 4.11secs at 179mph, and it looked super smooth (if not LOUD)
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    Topped out on uk A road ( 2 lane) at 154 mph.
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    Then there is this guy. I assume he is from another dimension and whether they reproduce using balls I would not know. Probably lay eggs in a Hyabusa tank full of race gas.



    I believe his wheelie record is just shy of the NZ land speed record.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    Then there is this guy. I assume he is from another dimension and whether they reproduce using balls I would not know. Probably lay eggs in a Hyabusa tank full of race gas.



    I believe his wheelie record is just shy of the NZ land speed record.
    on a public road !!!!
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    I believe at the end there, he is actually in the forecourt of a police station. A lady the spitting image of my mother inlaw walks past, so I assume this is Eastern Europe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    Then there is this guy. I assume he is from another dimension and whether they reproduce using balls I would not know. Probably lay eggs in a Hyabusa tank full of race gas.



    I believe his wheelie record is just shy of the NZ land speed record.
    Hes been doing that stuff for years.

    His name is Patrick Furstenhoff. Owns a Subaru dealership in Stockholm.

    One of the videos, he passes a truck.... hes going like 310kph or whatever, another truck coming the other way. He gos thru the tiniest gap without even flinching on the throttle.

    Its impressive in a dangerous irresponsible kinda way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribrit View Post
    Hes been doing that stuff for years.

    His name is Patrick Furstenhoff. Owns a Subaru dealership in Stockholm.

    One of the videos, he passes a truck.... hes going like 310kph or whatever, another truck coming the other way. He gos thru the tiniest gap without even flinching on the throttle.

    Its impressive in a dangerous irresponsible kinda way.
    Had a mate in the uk who drove in the same way, he now has one leg as he did not fit between the two trucks, best I did was smash my mirrors , needed to stop further down the road to check my under pants

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    Best I could ever get from my R1 was 189 mph or 304 kph

    As seen on the big digi speedo.

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    @Flyblown ,Bugatti are made in france like the TGV;-)

 

 

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