Thread: Titanium testicles

Anyone here who thinks that driving a car at 300mph is any form of easy, you're in need of a head transplant.

It's called physics, and a great deal of physics happen mighty fast at that speed, a speed that is not far off 100mph more than the Ferrari F1 cars will be doing at Monza tomorrow night. Just keeping the fucking thing on the ground is a challenge. Think Mark Webber, Le Mans, 1999.

The reaction time to make an adjustment to the vehicle dynamics at that speed is measured in what, milliseconds? Fractions of a millisecond! You need to be exceptionally confident in your engineers to take on a challenge like that. Which is why it is the record for a road legal production car, even if it does cost however many millions.

Yes the rally guys are mental. But the difference here is roughly 200mph. That's an awful lot of physics. A properly built cage in a properly built rally car means the physics probably won't get you when you fuck it up, which at some point, you will. But I don't even want to think about what a crash in a Bugatti at 300mph would look like, the damn thing weighs 2 tonnes. It ain't gonna stop in a hurry.

Nope. It requires titanium testicles all right. God knows I can't get my head around how the spouses must feel about their hubbies doing stuff like this.