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Originally Posted by luke g28
No im questioning why an endurance motorsport around a full circuit should have a higher average speed than the best circuit cars around a much shorter distance?
While im here though, there is speculation that the RBR qualifying advantage is because they can deploy kers much earlier through the corners. In the same way having more power available doesnt turn the series into drag racing.
Im not sure at what point you decided that I was all about top speed. I was stating that all aspects of the cars performance are controlled and my disappointment that having the same straight line performance as a road car would be too much for the worlds best drivers and that they couldn't handle it.
Yes f1 is about braking and cornering, but I would like to see these deregulated too! As an overall package though I think that F1 cars should be quicker around a circuit than any other race series to be able to claim "pinnacle" status.
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Problem is that different vehicles are designed to run on different types of tracks. If you race on a drag strip the dragster will be fastest by far, the Indy car would probably outpace an F1 car on a 2 mile plus oval and on a European style road course the F1 would beat the Indy car and the Dragster simply couldn't do it.
The fastest cars at Le mans (about which I confess I know very little) must be pretty close in performance to F1 and I think the gap has been shrinking over the years but on most tracks F1 runs on I suspect the F1 car would be quicker but at circuits where the premium is on aerodynamic efficiency and which have very long straights (such as Le Mans itself) the F1 cars are probably slower in overall lap time as well as top speed.
It is never as simple as which car is faster but I am quite certain that there is nothing out there that can match an F1 car for top speed, lateral G and change of direction, one of these yes but all three no. Closest thing I know is probably a hill climb car like the Gould GR55 but I don't think you'd find an example that could do 200mph.