Du mener altså, at der på KBH´s gader er masser af biler, der kan køre op til 360 km/t, har over 700 hk, og kan bremse fra 100 km/t til 0 på 17 meter? Til sammenligning skal en Porsche 911 Turbo bruge knap 32 meter for det samme. Førerne bliver på nogle baner udsat for op til 5,5 g, når de bremser.
En F1 bil kan bremse fra 200 km/t til 0 på 2,9 sekunder og 65 meter. Prøv evt. selv at bremse fra den hastighed næste gang du befinder dig på en øde motorvej.
During a demonstration at the Silverstone circuit in Britain, an F1 McLaren-Mercedes car driven by David Coulthard gave a pair of Mercedes-Benz street cars a head start of seventy seconds, and was able to beat the cars to the finish line from a standing start.
The 2006 F1 cars have a power-to-weight ratio of 1,250 hp (932 kW)/tonne (0.9 kW/kg). Theoretically this would allow the car to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) in less than 1 second. However the massive power cannot be converted to motion at low speeds due to traction loss, and the usual figure is 2 seconds to reach 100 km/h (62 mph). After about 130 km/h (81 mph) traction loss is minimal due to the combined effect of the car moving faster and the downforce, hence the car continues accelerating at a very high rate. The figures are (for the 2006 Renault R26):
0 to 100 km/h (62 mph): 1.7 seconds
0 to 200 km/h (124 mph): 3.8 seconds
0 to 300 km/h (186 mph): 8.6 seconds*