I know the cars only do the 0-60 sprint usually once but i wondered what the modern F1 car could do the benchmark sprint in ?
My guess sub 3 seconds ?
2007-03-27 01:00:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ Formula One
A few years ago, Road & Track magazine tried to evaluate the performance stats for an F1 car. However, since the knowledge is secretive and the cars can be adjusted so many ways to suit so many different tracks and situations they ended up talking to the Jaguar F1 team who used their performance tracking and telemetry software to give the magazine what they called very accurate estimates of performance. They said that the F1 car could do 0-60 in about 2.5 seconds.
BTW, most bone stock sportbikes in the 750cc and 1000cc size can just about match those speeds until about 80-90mph when the f1 will pull away quickly all the way to 250 mph.
2007-03-27 08:00:28 · answer #1 · answered by Matt M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Several years ago, an article in AutoWeek or Car&Driver had a "road test" including an Indy car, which did 0-60 in under 2 seconds. I was unable to quickly find specifics, but I did find a couple of websites that claim an F1 car goes from 0 to 60 in about 1.5 seconds.
2007-03-27 08:06:30 · answer #2 · answered by Craig L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the 0-60 time isnt all that important, its the 60-180 numbers thats really seperate f1 cars from other non drag racing cars
the power band in these cars lies in the 14-19k rpm range
because of this the take off from the line is spent bogged down in low revs, dont get me wrong its still has a better launch than all cars on the road, for some good performance related info see the link below
2007-03-27 13:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by eyesinthedrk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Estimates will run all over the place because this will depend on alot on how the car is set up, so depending on which F1 car and which circuit setup, you'll get a different number.
As a good "average" number, you could probably consider ~2 seconds. Though it'd be easy to imagine close to a half second variation either way when the car is setup with different gearing and aero-trim.
2007-03-27 13:09:57 · answer #4 · answered by Paul S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 1.5 seconds. But if acceleration is all you care about, go watch drag racing. The handling is what seperates an F1 car from anything else on pavement. They can pull up to 5 g's lateral acceleration.
2007-03-27 16:49:11 · answer #5 · answered by Schumacherfan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was on top gear that last years renault f1 car could go from 0-100 then back to 0 in 4 seconds.
2007-03-27 08:19:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
average 0-60 time for an f1 car is 1.67 seconds. pretty fast huh?
2007-03-27 12:24:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋