Fastest Speed On A Public Road...

[Airhead]

OK race fans

Lets run this one up the flag pole and see who salutes!

No lies now...

Alright if you insist I'll start...

Age 18 and 19, illegal street drags, don't know, to busy to look at the speedometer.

Recently, on a nice wide country backroad, 8am Saturady morning, drapped seductively over a Yamaha R1, myself with over developed right wrist (now, now) speed 251 klms/hr indicated on the digital read out.

[elephino]

Well I haven't gone that fast, though I think my car can do it if only just. The fastest I've been is 165km/h. Before that was 155km/h and I'm only pointing this out as I would have gone faster except the undulating road made the car move around so much over the rises that it was impossible to safely go faster. In fact 155 was pushing it.

But then I have only driven on max limit of 110km/h roads. One day I will go to the Northern Territory in a nice sports car of some description and work my way up to a 200+ speed after a few runs. Have to get used to a car at that speed first.

I have hit 185km/h in a road car at Eastern Creek. A Holden Statesman, but that was just spooky as the back end was moving around so much. A Vectra at 180km/h was so much smoother and nicer.

[mtpanorama]

Mazda rx3 race car that i had was also road registered ,flat out at 175km/h.
ED XR6 on the way to wakefeild Park, speedo off the clock at 200km/h and pulled another 600rpm and with my rough calculations worked out to be about 220-225km/h. Not bad for a family sedan

but the fastest i have been was on the back of a motorbike at eastern creek. It was a 1997 Ex factory Ducatti superbike. About 260 or a bit above down the main straight at eastern creek whilst sitting on the rear fairing and hanging on for dear life. But what a blast

[Airhead]

Far out Mount,

Riding ***** (sorry) on a Ductai at 260. That's maximum brave pills in my book.

Who was on the front seat??

[Wrex]

I did 335 Kph in a Lambo once - was heading to 350 when my brother hit the reset button on the playstation

Fast in the WRX was about 210, I think it could go faster, but I could'nt. I was on a back road in near Bendigo, and suddenly the thought of a Roo came acroos my mind and what that would do to me at that speed. So, I don't do that anymore. I yeah, then theres the fact I have one point left on my licence..........

[bella]

i did 180kmh for a while down the m11 age 17 on new years day morning 2000. car will go little faster with more downforce. engine not dead yet

[Airhead]

This all sounds like a job for Lamboman,

I mean Laxman!

Need For Speed~!

[mtpanorama]

Who was on the front seat??

it was a guy i know by the name of Geoff whitaker. He owns a Ducatti shop in Penrith called REDS MOTORCYCLES. He races a lot in the BEARS catagory.

[KC]

I have reached an indicated 127 mph in my 90 Honda CRX Si. I've only had the Focus up to 110 mph as of yet. I have been over an indicated 140 mph in the back seat of a souped up Mustang GT.

[Airhead]

Originally posted by mtpanorama


it was a guy i know by the name of Geoff whitaker. He owns a Ducatti shop in Penrith called REDS MOTORCYCLES. He races a lot in the BEARS catagory.

Good one,

Don't know the guy but know the shop and a mate who spends his pay there trying to get a 900 SS going

[laxman]

ok,
im here.thx to an invitation by wrex.
I really havent pushed teh car on any public roads.however there is an old runway nearby(not in use) where i have tried several times.The speedo showed me around 220mph which is funny because the top speed is supposed to be just below 210mph.
you really cant rely on those.BTW what was the digital speedo about?How does it calculate teh speed??
Surely it cant be much diff from the clock type one!!
It is probably just a digital display.

[Hans.ca]

After dropping my boss off at the airport in Dusseldorf I drove his BMW at 270 km and in less the 30 minutes almost ended up in Holland rather then Dortmund near where my office was. It was a blast but many people go faster on the autobahn.

[Craig]

My car only reaches 110... Probably pretty lucky that though...!

Have been rather faster as a passenger in a 'borrowed' Sierra Cossie, but that was a long time ago and I don't get involved with that sort of thing anymore... scarey stuff!

[Neil C]

In '84, my racing partner and I flew from Minneapolis to New York to retrieve and return a Lambo Countach which was in New Jersey getting US emission control installed.

We drove the car back stoping only for fuel. Because overheating was a concern with the new equipment on, I did not reach over 110 or 120 (MPH)....

....so, my entry as fastest on the streets goes back to 1969. The father of a friend of mine just got a Dodge Coronet "Super Bee". A killer car with a Mopar 440 Hemi and three two barrel carbs (the infamous "six pack"). I sat in the back seat with my heart in my throat as we sped down a country road at up to 140mph. I thought my glimpse at the speedo was going to be the last thing I ever saw.

Kids, do NOT try this at home.

I know I've been over 100mph on my Honda Sabre, but I was too focused to glimpse downward.

[djb]

Oh I just knew that this topic would pop up sooner or later.........
As Neil thoughtfully mentioned, Kids, do NOT try this at home and not anywhere where you'll hurt anyone else (there, got my dad instincts out of the way)

When I owned bikes, the fastest would do 180-190k- I once strapped a Nikon to a tank bag and so have (somewhere) a readable but blurry shot of the tach at 9500 and the speedo somewhere around there, one day I'll find it and try to post it).

On four wheels, a rented Peugot 406 in Germany that would only pull 200k, I put "only" cuz I was really hoping to get much faster than the good old bike days.

Amoff, you said it about Mount's Duke story, that would be a hundred times scarier than anything we've done holding onto the bars! Can't imagine being on the slippery back of that thing!

Laxman, this of course does beg a car identification....

[Ross]

Fastest I've done is 145mph pillion on a Yamaha FZ750 over the mountain in the isle of man (you can see a pic @ www.milkybarracing.com in the classic bikes section) wikid!!

[Diabando]

Do we really want to admit to this?

Fastest I have been on the road in the HQ, is when I take it to just over 160kph, which is not that fast. Fastest ever would be years ago as a passenger in a friends GTHO (yes, original), I have no idea how fast we were going, but he was trying to outrun the police (I thought I was going to die), and he made it (we hid in a BP clean & go carwash)

Passenger on a bike, I was wearing my racing helmet (which is heavy), and we hit just over 200kph, which was excellent, except that my visor started shuddering, and with the weight of my helmet, I thought my head was going to fly off....

[TimD]

Diabando, there are sides to you that I never suspected...!

Running from the police, eh?

Well, without giving away details, once, somewhere in Europe I saw 120mph (205kmh) at the wheel of a Rover 827 Vitesse. I should emphasise this was on an open, deserted motorway at dawn.

Of course, you can remain legal and still have fun with acceleration. And the fastest accelerating cars I have played with over the years were the Aston Martin DBS, Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona, Lotus Esprit S3 Turbo. All three had rocketship acceleration from 50mph to 70mph, which is where you need it most. I'll concede that as I was test driving the Daytona with a nervy salesman alongside me, there was no way I explored all the performance. The Aston was more fun, though.

And then there was a seriously scary Ford Sapphire RS Cosworth Police Special, borrowed from Ford's development centre, which had more power than the tyres, the chassis, indeed the whole kit and kaboodle could cope with. It was quite the most skittish performance car I have ever tried.

[Wrex]

Originally posted by Diabando
Fastest I have been on the road in the HQ, is when I take it to just over 160kph...............Fastest ever would be years ago as a passenger in a friends GTHO (yes, original), I have no idea how fast we were going, but he was trying to outrun the police (I thought I was going to die),

I dunno Diabando, the HQ at 160 would have been pretty scary to me

[Warwick]

I used to regulary hit an indicated 200kph on my Ducati Darmah on club runs,then the fast guys would pull out and pass me.

220kph on my brothers RZ500.

115mph in a Mk1 capri V6.

Eeerrrrrrr all on private roads of course!

[Airhead]

Warwick

great stuff, come Saturday morning I'm off over the mountains and out west to the straight long roads that mock the speed limit.

On this road a few years ago I was in a group of people on about 180klms an hour when the fello on the Suzuki Hyabusa 1300 went by all of us like we were suddenly in reverse. He saw an indicated speed of 280 klms an hour out of a bike capable of 300.

This was impressive if not very naughty stuff.

[paul c]

140mph as a passenger in a Jag XJS. The only scary thing about this was that we were overtaking people at twice the speed they were going at. Had there been no other cars on the road, we might as well have been doing 50mph for all the feedback the Jag. gave. The car was sold soon after since my friend found it a little boring. He, too, ended up with a Sierra Cossie which I had the fun of testing out. Like Tim, I'm more interested in the raw power of get up and go rather than outright speed, and in a straight line it was a monster. With my current car being a Volvo, my memories of get-up-and-go, got-up-and-went...

[Daz]

Once done 125mph in Ford Escort 1.8 on the way to Donington early one morning and that was with 4 people in the car.

[Ray Bell]

Driving a road test XU-1 to Surfers in 1972 for the Gold Star meeing (from Sydney, it was the last rendition of the XU-1) I was regularly seeing 135mph on the speedo once I got past Coffs Harbour. I don't think it was far out. It was an overnight drive, left Sydney late... maybe 10:00pm... Friday, Max gave up at Raymond Terrace and I drove till about Murwillumbah... I was treating it gently till Coffs Harbour when:

Max rose from his slumber... "What's happening?"

"Just through Coffs now, but this jerk in a Monaro doesn't want me to pass, I'm going to have to go over a hundred to get him..."

"Go for it.. " and he went back to sleep.

I nailed it... those days I always drove as fast as a car would go if I could... it went fast.

When I owned an Austin A99 ... very good as a tow car... I used to keep the speedo on that up around 110 in overdrive everywhere I went, but didn't it destroy front suspensions!

[Jeanburrasca81]

242 kmph in my father's Rover 820ti in the early morning some day in the last autumn on the Autostrada 22 from Trento to Bolzano..about 50 km with an average speed of more than 200 kmph.
Honestly now that we have a Mondeo turbodiesel and the maximum speed is 180 kmph I don't really miss the high speed. It's already a good feeling to drive a car on it's own limits. I drove my friends little Corsa at its max speed of about 155 kmph and it felt more exiting than 200 in the Rover.
BUT...speed is a thrill I need somehow!