so, no brakes needed, or required, just accelerator pedal to the floor, all the way around the track.
I bet that would be amazing... no slowing down for curves, no hairpins, just full throttle all the time.
Big banked curves, bridges over other pieces of the track to max out long curves, etc
Daytona!
ReplyDeleteumm, you are right, but I'm not talking about circles and ovals... I'm talking about FUN for the driver. Not boring.
DeleteMonza?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.pirelli.com/global/en-ww/race/monza-racetrack-the-temple-of-speed
thanks! Reading that right now, and posting about Monza!
DeleteNope. Monza is an oval. A road track 5 and a half kilometres long and an oval ring
DeleteThe story goes that Walt Faulkner, an Indy rookie in 1950 driving for JC Agajanian (Clay Smith the chief wrench), was pushed out onto the track on the first day of qualifying. Approaching the green flag he stood on it hard. He set a record no one else bested that day, so was on the pole for the race. A jubilant crew was there to greet him as he coasted into the pits, congratulating him for the magnificent job. His response was something like, “Well I don’t know about that. The damn throttle stuck and all I was trying to do was hold on.” It’s just possible Walt ran a few laps wide open, turns and all.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in WRC?
ReplyDelete"The one about the fastest stage in the history of the World Rally Championship. Stig Blomqvist and Björn Cederberg averaged 117.77mph for the opening test on the 1983 Rally Argentina.
So, let’s get that right, they averaged that speed. Presumably, this was some straight-line superspecial or something like that? Er, no. It was the 50-mile run from Fray Louis Beltran to Valle Azul. Blomqvist and the captain stopped the clock on 25m48s.
Blomqvist’s Audi quattro was geared for 130mph, which demonstrates how few corners there must be on that road south-west of San Carlos de Bariloche.
Regardless of the number of corners, 25 minutes on the limiter in a Group B car must have been lively to say the least."