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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 7:25:03 GMT
I've really enjoyed reading the stuff in Autocar about the F1, 25 years on. I thought I'd kept everything from the time of launch, but it dawns on me that I hadn't actually seen the Autocar test, with the only officially-sanctioned set of figures. Magazine bought from eBay. Obviously they are impressive stats, even now. But my car is faster still. Well, from 30-50 in top gear. Not actually anywhere else. Not by a long chalk.
But I'll cling on to that, 6.4s vs 7. Admittedly, the gearing is somewhat different. If mine could reach peak power in top (which I doubt) that would be 199.66mph, which is just fractionally down on the old stager...
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Post by Tim on Jun 17, 2019 9:51:24 GMT
Ha, when I had my MG Maestro I basked in the glow that mine was only 1 rung down from the Turbo, a car well publicised for being faster than a Ferrari, Aston Martin, etc!
The figures for the McLaren are regularly eclipsed nowadays but I'm not sure that any of the modern super or hyper cars actually appeal to me anymore.
I can't remember this - did the F1 have any form of traction control or was it entirely down to the driver?
I remember watching Tiffany testing it on Top Gear and lighting up the rear tyres in a straight line after exiting the final chicane at Goodwood. That was impressive and scary.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 17, 2019 10:13:18 GMT
Pretty sure that the F1 did not have any traction control. Somewhere in the house I probably still have the special magazine supplement that accompanied the test
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 10:49:27 GMT
I got that with the magazine. No TC.
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Post by humphreythepug on Jun 18, 2019 7:32:25 GMT
From my recent visit to the MTC:  |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jun 18, 2019 7:40:36 GMT
Pah! I've seen Astra diesel vans driven by apprentice plumbers accelerate away from the lights faster than an F1.
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 18, 2019 14:32:36 GMT
I got to sit in XP5 way back in 1995 at the Goodwood festival of speed. The event was a hell of a lot smaller then it is today. They had around 5 F1's on site and the Ueno Clinic Le Mans winner. A real privilege and even Ron Dennis was there and didn't turn his nose up at an oik like me sat in his car.
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Post by Sav on Jun 18, 2019 20:55:16 GMT
The F1 as a kid was the car. I'm sure the next Bugatti or electric supercar will have 150000bhp and do 350 mph, but in terms of influence and what an achievement it must have been at the time, it will always be my favourite supercar.
Tim mentions that moment with Needell on Top Gear, that is a moment etched in my mind forever. Its like, there's no hope in hell I could do that. Then there was that engine. If god made an engine....
That piece in Autocar illustrated how the F1 isn't that far off a supercar in 2019 which has more power. Despite having no launch control, a manual gearbox and no turbo's, the 720s didn't exactly obliterate the F1.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2019 7:43:32 GMT
It's worth considering how cheap the 720S is compared to the F1's inflation-unadjusted £540k (or whatever it was). More bang for the buck and when the F1 was launched, consensus was that nothing would ever be made that would be faster!
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