Wouldn't that be cool?
How long is the M25?
How long would it take them to get round?
How many fuel stops would be required for 1 lap?
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 12/10/2007 at 01:43
|
|
And you can bet there'd be a twerp in a 3 series trying to keep up
|
|
|
It's 130miles long.
They;d be running with minimal wing, so top end I'd guess at 240mph, so 4 miles a minute.
They'd definitely need at least one and possibly two fuel stops so about half an hour per lap.
--
I read often, only post occasionally
|
|
Not an F1 race, a 2CV race, run at 2 a.m. without closing the road, and with plod agreeing to run people in only if they do something dangerous and are spotted.
|
|
Seem to recall there were races around the M25 in the early 90's. Porsche 911s and so forth. Did hear that they used to break the hour mark! Truth or urban myth who knows?
|
|
My money would be on a builders Mercedes Sprinter to beat anything...with an old cream crackered white AstraMax diesel van right on his back bumper.
|
The Astramax's chance of success would depend on whether the obligatory "go faster ladders" were allowed to be secured to the roof.
Thus equipped, everyone knows the Astramax diesel is the fastest road legal vehicle ever designed (the Sprinter is a mere pretender), and would win hands down. :-)
Cheers
DP
--
04 Grand Scenic 1.9 dCi Dynamique
00 Mondeo 1.8TD LX
|
|
|
|
It's 130miles long.
117 miles according to the highways agency.
www.highways.gov.uk/knowledge/15471.aspx
|
"Wouldn't that be cool?"
Nah, don't be daft, it wouldn't be in the present spirit of F1, there would probably be overtaking.
If it does take place, I think they should be made to pay the toll at QE bridge, and stop for a coffee at services at least once on each lap - espresso or mocha sir? skimmed, semi skimmed or whole milk? Sugar? would you like a £3 Danish pastry to go with that? Don't forget it's only free parking for 2 hours, otherwise it's £25.
--
Phil
|
|
|
>> It's 130miles long. 117 miles according to the highways agency.
119 one way, 121 the other.
Honest guv, cross my heart. Urban miff mate.
|
Instead of pitstops the drivers could use the emergency phones to call their pitcrew out with a breakdown truck, and in the case of a minor shunt the poilce could close the road for three days while they measure up and gather evidence.
--
|
The more I think about it the more the 2CV race makes sense.
A 2CV on a motorway can make, pedal to the metal, between 60 and 80 depending on gradient, 90 plus with a real hotshoe down a decent hill, never having to lift or brake being extremely important, but the speeds well within M25 normal traffic speeds.
Feed them down a slip road at 1minute intervals, time them back up the other side of the same slip road what, a couple of hours later...
Fabulous! And practically legal, anyway slower than some of the M25 traffic especially uphill.
An entirely practical, virtually invisible road race in modern SE England.
Think about it.
Edited by Lud on 12/10/2007 at 01:02
|
|
Lud - it's inspired. What's French for Gumball?
|
What's French for Gumball?
Boule de gomme??
|
|
|
|
|
|
Anyone ever been to the big island of Hawaii recently?
There's a wide, very well maintained (best I've seen in the US) road which goes round most of it, though lava fields, rainforest, woods, with spectacular views.
It struck me as I blasted round it in my hired Dodge Magnum, it would make a fantastic place to stage a road race where people bring their regular cars.
Of course given all the fuss from the environment lobby about an interisland ferry service they were trying to start up, I'm sure this would be a non-starter.
|
>And practically legal
Isn't road racing illegal? Or have I been misinformed?
|
|
we could have it on Nov 5th and burn all the bendy buses in one big bonfire at the same time?
|
|
|
|
