Absolutely. There are limits to how quick and precise a human can be, and a situation like this really puts that in the spotlight. I wouldn’t be surprised if a computer-simulated perfect lap was sub-5.
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Yeah he left a little time on the table here and there, but it’s entirely possible he’s holding back from the limit because even a small mistake would be game over for the car at that speed on that track.
2:45 in, he’s approaching 200mph uphill, hits the boost and rockets to 220 in a few seconds. Holy...
Meh, I’m with him about the steering wheels 100%, and it is annoying and stupid that Toyota/Subaru don’t include the console armrest from the factory. I do agree that configuring a modern AM in any color combo besides BRG over Brown is wrongWrongWRONG though, so maybe that’s 3 strikes in one awful swing?
Found the Veyron numbers: (from Automobile mag article)
No actual idea, but I’ll take the excuse to pull some numbers from thin air and scribble some numbers on the back of an envelope:
Mario Andretti comes to mind immediately. Ask the internet. I know it’s a very short list.
Can we talk about how his F1 career is at a dead end because he’s such an asshole that no one wants to work with him, but outside of F1 he’s a beloved breath of fresh air, a cheerful fun guy?
Awwwww shit. the one frikkin Pagani that went back to 6.0L and I had to try and correct someone on that one. *Sigh* guess I’ll go...accomplish something at work, or...something...
*ahem* *AHEM* *whispering* yes, sorry...it’s 7.3...Didn’t want to embarrass you in front of your friends.
That’s what I’m sayin. It wouldn’t be a big deal for the engineering department to beef up the existing design to handle higher speeds. Talk about a lazy/shortsighted decision that backfired spectacularly (eventually...20 years later...after the people who made the decision had retired and/or died of old age).
Goodyear told them it was OK, when they knew it wasn’t. Then when the speed limits went up, Goodyear was asked about even higher speeds, and they responded by increasing the speed rating of the tire, without altering the design, despite internal data showing that it wasn’t OK even at the original, lower speeds. Then…
I just wanna say: this article read like it was written by a seasoned pro. That business at the end about an intern and whatnot was confusing, until I looked and saw that the intern wrote this. Well played, young Sir.
mmathers, you da REAL hero.
No video?!? All this foreplay with talk of keeping the sound, revving to 9k+, making sweet noises...and you can’t provide us with the climax we deserve by including a VIDEO??!?!?!?
This initial take is rational and succinct, but the waters are muddied by what you said after that.
I read this, and I think:
Ha! Here in SoFla, we NEVER wish for Summer, because we get 6-9 months of it whether we like it or not. We do, however, often just wish it was “Winter”, or what most people would call “Extended Spring with occasional bits of Fall”, i.e. December through February.
Now I can’t resist thinking up smaller and/or less ugly vehicles that could also swallow up your disassembled, medium-sized desk (seriously, city-dweller: 60x34 is not “huge”. “Large” for an off-the-shelf desk is 72x36, and “huge” is better applied to 8x4 sheet of plywood sized power desks.).