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Old 02-04-2008, 04:39 PM
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A car at 150mph is traveling 1 mile in 24 seconds....My question is how are you going to clock a car at that speed. A drag car hits there speed in about 1.4 seconds.....A touring car will take about 10 seconds to make top speed around 70mph, and an 1/8th scale will top out in about 6 seconds.......But the radio controled tethered car hits 200mph in about 40 seconds to reach that speed........Why the Tether? at 150mph a car that weighs only 1 lb with a frontal impact contact patch would have an impact weight of near 822.75lbs! (depending on the impact patch, using about 4 squar inches)...


.http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/31/r...-speed-record/

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/354/C13000/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7bZ6bL9reo
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