[Zebug]

Someone tell me why this is all over the news... Can't any one of us break this record tomorrow if we had the space to do it?

Actor Idris Elba sets speed record in a Bentley - May. 7 2015

 

[jjtt]

Seems like some obscure, unpopular "record" that the producers leveraged to generate some publicity for their new show.

 

[Mopar707]

It has to more difficult than it sounds since the car is claimed to have a top speed of 206 under ideal conditions and the Challenger Hellcat is supposedly 199. I assume if it was just a factor of holding the gas pedal down, he would have gone much faster. Wind conditions on any particular day have to be a factor since you have to average your time both ways and head winds and cross winds at that speed in a fairly non-aerodynamic car would be pretty precarious.

I was fascinated to read recently that if you crossed the starting line of a quarter mile going 200 MPH in car with a top speed of 200 MPH that a current top fuel dragster starting from zero would chase you down and pass you within the quarter mile.

 

[Zebug]

It has to more difficult than it sounds since the car is claimed to have a top speed of 206 under ideal conditions and the Challenger Hellcat is supposedly 199. I assume if it was just a factor of holding the gas pedal down, he would have gone much faster. Wind conditions on any particular day have to be a factor since you have to average your time both ways and head winds and cross winds at that speed in a fairly non-aerodynamic car would be pretty precarious.

I was fascinated to read recently that if you crossed the starting line of a quarter mile going 200 MPH in car with a top speed of 200 MPH that a current top fuel dragster starting from zero would chase you down and pass you within the quarter mile.

Man that is awesome... At 200 you'd do that 1/4 in 4.5 seconds.... I can't imagine what it feels like to do the quarter sub 4 lol

 

[KLR CAT]

It a record at that beach in england only not outright record.