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My old Ford Ka with only a 1.3 engine will just about reach 100mph. So why is it that a F1 car with almost 1000bhp and weigh very little can only get to about 200mph
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good question. I believe the main issue here is that the raw horsepower requirement goes up by the square of velocity, due to wind resistance. whereas it is relatively easy to get up to, say, 60 mph in a regular car, it would take noticeably longer to accelerate another 60 mph to arrive at 120 mph. the same concept applies to formula 1. 1000 hp is a good amount of horsepower, but after the vehicle accelerates from 80-ish mph in the turn to 200 mph in the straight, another turn comes up. Speaking strictly in terms of straight line speed with no turns, coupled with the aerodynamics of the formula 1 engineering, it would be completely reasonable to see 240-250 mph out of one of these cars, given enough length.Interested ones! Make all existing petrol cars carburettor & mpfi environmentally friendly?
Please note, above 200 mph, there is an EXTREME demand on horsepower. Bonneville land speed racers that go 200 mph regularly have 900-1300 horsepower engines in their vehicles, and those are purpose-built land speed cars. Also, please keep in mind the drag on the formula cars due to the spoilers and wings needed for traction in the turns
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Your Ford Ka will never do 100 btw.
gearing, if they change the ratios then the car can go faster but accelerate slower
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It would be a bit silly to go much faster, and the circuits and the cars are designed for fast acceleration and braking, not top end speed.Otherwise they would race rocket cars on a 50 mile long straight.
those cars are going faster than take off speed for a jet and cornering at those speeds,they have enough down force to actually run upside down if you could twist the track over while they are running on it,F1 racers are limited for safety reasons,like stopping etc
and i would say you are really crazy or really brave to take a KA to 100mph
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I had my 1.2 Lada at 98mph, and it weighed almost 2.5 times as much as an F1 car...my previous 1.5 Lada went well over 100mph! So much for modern engineering...I'd guess that it's something to do with the law of diminishing returns, as you reach a point where an increase in something produces less and less benefit (like chucking money at the NHS).
Well to start with a F1 car will reach 100mph a bloody site quicker than yours. The modern F1 cars are limited by designs, aerodynamics etc to keep the speed down, most of the cars would be capable of speeds in excess of 200mph but with decreasing safety
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according to physics there is always drag and an opposite force applies to a moving object .these forces will increase when the velocity increases. Because of this action these F1 cars want go faster as you like.
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safety! more speed kills spectators.for an airbag to deploy, does the seatbelt need to be fastened?
Dream on rob 200087 A 1.3 Ka doing a ton pull the other one. By the way are those numbers your day /month / year of birth, makes you 19 and know it all. You should take that Ka back to Fords, looks like they slipped a 3.5 semi hemi V10 in by mistake. My grandad normaly does them in his invalid carriage.With a permit, is it illegal to drive with someone 25 years and older AND someone under 18??
Why would any self respecting bloke own up to owning a Ford Ka. The Ka was designed basically as a womans car, for young girls and an older womens "shopping trolly". Most, if not all of the main components, brakes, steering, suspension, tyres where not designed for high speed. Keep doing "tons" in that sort of car and you will end up as another statistic. The problem is you could also make other road users into "statistics". P.S. just because your speedo says 100, don't be fooled!! They are WILDLY inaccurate.Of the American "Big Three" Auto makers, which one do you think should survive and why?
1.3i Zetec (70ps) 3d 1297 / 4 69 104 14.1 45 group 4.... just for any one that thinks the ford ka wont do 100mph here's Parker's review on it and as you can see it does 104 so run in and in a good road you should get 110 as i have done in my chicks ka and i would think in this day and age that a 1.3i is capable of such a speed ;) PS i have had my vts saxo at 140mph and its only a 1.6i 16v and Parker's says its good for 130mph before any mods.....Drag, F1 cars are optimised for grip in corners, so they need large efficient wings, underbody etc for downforce and this hurts top speed, I think Anthony Davidson idid 250 mph in a 2006 Honda F1 car with minimum downforce.
The ka however is optimised for low drag for economy and speed but has lousy high speed stability and grip as a trade off. so keep your speed exploits for motorways, it may even find the M5 round Birmingham to be a challenge, corner wise.
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F1 cars are geared for acceleration, not overall top speed. The days of 1000bhp in F1 went out years ago with turbos. Buy a Kawasaki ZZR1400 for £9000 and it'll do a limited 186MPH with 180bhp without any modifications.More Questions & Answers ...
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