Simon225 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 http://kottke.org/12...like-super-fast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenh Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I remember not so many years ago McLaren staged a demonstration at Silverstone involving a baby (A series) Mercedes, a high performance production Mercedes, and David Coultard in the F1 car. Think it was for one of the TV motoring programmes. The A series was allowed about 2/3rds of a lap head start, the high performance car about 1/3 of a lap, at which point they got Coultard buckled in and started up. By the time he completed his first, standing start, lap, he'd overtaken both the other cars and they were driven by professional racing drivers! Hard to imagine that sort of performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 I've seen the first clip before, interesting, but nothing unexpected. It was the casually refered too difference between the eighties car and a modern one that amazed me! Obviously, you know they're faster, but I honestly had never realised the gap was so huge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffC Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 think you have to look no further than the old top gear that had a car, rally car and F1 car difference was staggering! edited to say here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhWFjWggqsw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrG Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 http://kottke.org/12...like-super-fast The difference is quite surprising, but looks even more impressive IMHO when you view the overlaid version of the video at the additional link that's on the above page, and here ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 The one on the right seems to me to be unrealistically speeded up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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