The Honda F1 team constructed their F1 car and decided to take the car to Utah’s world famous Bonneville Salt Flats in 2006. Because I was a circuit racer, at first I didnât get it.
This Honda F1 car was formerly raced by Jenson Button and Takuma Sato in 2005. 0:44. The only way you know youâre going fast is because your helmet is getting pulled off your head and the car is screaming in seventh gear.âWe thought we were going to need something like three miles of track - but because of the low grip we needed five miles just to build up the speed, tickling the throttle, being patient.
Baku is an unusual circiuit because, despite being a street circuit, it has a 2.2km “straight”. The track was 200m wide and 11 miles long. Bottas hit a speed of When was the 413 km/h record set and who was the record-setter? The World Championship of Drivers has been held since 1950.Driver records listed here include all rounds which formed part of the World Championship since 1950: this includes the Indianapolis 500 in 1950–1960 (though it was not run to Formula 1 rules), and the 1952 and 1953 World Championship Grands Prix (which were run to Formula 2 rules). Record-breaking production vehicles According to Williams, the Finn hit an incredible 378km/h (234.9mph) during practice on the streets of Baku last year. In testing one month prior to the 2005 Italian Grand Prix, Juan Pablo Montoya of the McLaren-Mercedes F1 team recorded a record top speed of 372.6 km/h (231.5 mph), which got officially recognised by the FIA as the fastest speed ever achieved by an F1 car, even though it was not set during an officially sanctioned session during a race weekend.
âWe knew it was a ridiculous idea because the marketing department [at BAR-Honda] had come up with this magic number of 400km/h.âWeâd said it wasnât possible: the cars do the speed they do on the track â 360-370km/h with a tow â and thatâs it: you canât make them go faster. My engineer asked me to do a run at 280km/h. Over two years, with numerous blind alleys, false starts and a steep learning curve, the project gained in knowledge and credibility - culminating with the final runs on June 21, 2006, when the current records for the flying mile and flying kilometre were set. F1 2018 - Top Speed record 388kmh/241 mph - Duration: 0:44. It taught me about what we use as references: the car accelerates and then tails off and you feel extra drag if youâre near the limit for the gear youâre in, but this thing had massively long gears. I didnât really see the point of that.âWorking on the project changed my point of view. The color scheme and the overall structure of the F1 cars are decided by the team while the manufacturing and designing part can be outsourced. Since F1 is a sport of speed and time, the equipment designed for the race is technologically advanced with the help of science-oriented concepts. I was probably in fourth or fifth and it was still pulling like crazy so I assumed it was 250-280km/h.
There is some controversy over the F1 car top speed record, Juan Pablo Montoya’s 2005 record of 231.5 mph was achieved during testing but recognised by the FIA whereas Valtteri Bottas’ 2016 top speed of 231.48 mph was achieved in race conditions but has yet to be accepted by FIA record officials. They found it hilarious. He told me Iâd done 360km/h.âI misjudged it because the car was still accelerating so hard. Iâd look at those 2000hp American things built in someoneâs backyard and not get it. The car was too light, with huge, balloon tyres on slippery salt. The 2016 European Grand Prix saw an even higher record of Bottas while qualifying for the race with a speed of This speed was declared and was available on through the Williams team’s Twitter post, while the recorded FIA’s official data measured Bottas’s speed at 366.1 km/h in that instance. Formula 1 is a sport based on complete science and technology. It was, says Van der Merwe, âthe wrong tool for the job.ââWhen we first opened the tail-lift [at Bonneville] the regulars were laughing. The FIA’s medical car driver Alan van der Merwe drove the car and was able to hit a staggering speed of
They said âJust add more horsepowerâ â but itâs not a case of simply turning a screw and adjusting a valve here and there.