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Ford GT
11.2 @ 131.2
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<blockquote data-quote="Vic" data-source="post: 1466074" data-attributes="member: 17936"><p>When I say "past" 200, I mean like 212 or 213 reported at Nardo! I know the straights aren't long enough to stretch its legs, so thats why it didn't post its best known top speed.</p><p></p><p>Yes, later I went back and read the whole article with relish! Runs with the world's best, and makes me proud! Showed it to my wife, just to keep the dream alive. My time will come!</p><p></p><p>There seems to be a little error in their chart on page 74. They show the banked curve on the left side of the page, with a dotted line going up to the tri-color chart. This would indicate the GT was going less than 180, maybe 178 or so at that point in the turn. But in the text on page 69, last paragraph, Herta reports he was "over 190 mph coming off the banking". The far left side of the chart is described as "exiting the corner and acceleration", which is synonymous with "coming off the banking" (-Herta). (and NOT consistent with the dotted lines, which seem to reference mid-corner speed) But there is a vast difference between the two speeds, of 190 "off the banking", and 178 "exiting the corner"! </p><p></p><p>If it could be construed that the chart is showing mid-corner speed, (and not exit speed) then there still is a problem, because if so, then the mid-corner speed according to the chart and its little dotted lines is about 178, but the sidebar on the right side of the chart says the GT did 186 in mid-corner. So that is not a plausible explanation for the divergence in the speeds reported in the article. I think they just made some goofy graphics, and its 186 mid-corner, 190 at corner exit. But if so, then where did it do the 178 shown on the left side of the chart?</p><p></p><p>Did you catch that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vic, post: 1466074, member: 17936"] When I say "past" 200, I mean like 212 or 213 reported at Nardo! I know the straights aren't long enough to stretch its legs, so thats why it didn't post its best known top speed. Yes, later I went back and read the whole article with relish! Runs with the world's best, and makes me proud! Showed it to my wife, just to keep the dream alive. My time will come! There seems to be a little error in their chart on page 74. They show the banked curve on the left side of the page, with a dotted line going up to the tri-color chart. This would indicate the GT was going less than 180, maybe 178 or so at that point in the turn. But in the text on page 69, last paragraph, Herta reports he was "over 190 mph coming off the banking". The far left side of the chart is described as "exiting the corner and acceleration", which is synonymous with "coming off the banking" (-Herta). (and NOT consistent with the dotted lines, which seem to reference mid-corner speed) But there is a vast difference between the two speeds, of 190 "off the banking", and 178 "exiting the corner"! If it could be construed that the chart is showing mid-corner speed, (and not exit speed) then there still is a problem, because if so, then the mid-corner speed according to the chart and its little dotted lines is about 178, but the sidebar on the right side of the chart says the GT did 186 in mid-corner. So that is not a plausible explanation for the divergence in the speeds reported in the article. I think they just made some goofy graphics, and its 186 mid-corner, 190 at corner exit. But if so, then where did it do the 178 shown on the left side of the chart? Did you catch that? [/QUOTE]
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