That's all I need. NOS and Vin Diesel delivering it.

 

You have big gay man-crush on Vin Diesel!!

 

How could you not!! The guy drives a 10 second car!

 

Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course.

...... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION![/QUOTE]

I have another standing start vs dead stop drag race fun run. A mclaren f1 is given a running start to 100 mph against a stopped bugatti veyron. The bugatti beats the mclaren to 200 mph in less than a quarter mile.

 

Where'd you get that? The Bugatti runs roughly 140mph in the quarter. Not 200. And the McLaren will pull from 100-200 significantly faster than a Veyron gets to 200 from a standstill. Nevermind that the Bug has a grand in the HP department, the McLaren is a wickedly fast car. I think people are forgetting that because it has "only" 627-680hp, depending on whether it's a standard F1 or an F1 LM, and everyone sweats the Bug's 1001hp. It's a lot, but in a car that weighs almost 50% more than the F1, losing more of its output to parasitic factors than the F1 does, due to its AWD. That scenario you propose would result in the F1 smoking the Bugatti.

 

thats some cool info! i never really understood why those pit crews tore down the motors after every run or two, but now i know!

 

well I went in search of what I said to find a source because I couldn't remember where I heard it. Eventually I found that it was a sort of legend based on preproduction estimates but in the real world its not true. The buggati will only hit 200mph at the same time as the F1 with a 100 mph head start :O

http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/carg...ti_veyron.html

 

Think about the relativistic aspects here...

the driver of such a vehicle, as compared to an observer at the start, is several pico-seconds younger than the observer at the end of his run.