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.

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Mate rally cars top speed is slow....their proximity to things kinda changes the perspective a bit though

Is it slow when you factor in you are not actually attached to anything? But yeah, top speeds are pretty mild but it sure as hell feels fast.

I was going to point to drag cars, but you beat me to it. Maybe I am kidding myself, but I would give 300ks in that Bugatti a shot without too much hesitation. Getting to 170mph in 400m, not so much.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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.

Do you race anything? I do agree it requires balls, but relatively speaking, you are wrong about the physics. He does not need to accelerate hard, brake, corner or in any other way disturb the vehicle. He is on a clean clear wide test track. The only bit that is strange here is that it is a production vehicle, buts its a race car with a number plate. He has a team of engineers there. As driving challenges go, it is middling.

A top fuel dragster does 330mph in under 400m, there are plenty of top fuel drivers. Top tier mad bastards, but there are a fair few of them.

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Driving cars fast doesn't require real skills or courage. I exclude rally drivers from that statement, they need courage, skills and a healthy dose of insanity.Buggered if I'd get in a car with Paddon in a serious mood!, but I'd go to sleep in a car with Murphy or the like.

Two wheels at real speed, fist to fist, elbow to elbow, knee to knee fighting to win the line (or control the exit), that will focus the mind like nothing else on the planet.

What he said, word for word.

Then there is this guy. I assume he is from another dimension and whether they reproduce using balls I would not know. Probably lay eggs in a Hyabusa tank full of race gas.



I believe his wheelie record is just shy of the NZ land speed record.

Originally Posted by Tussock

Then there is this guy. I assume he is from another dimension and whether they reproduce using balls I would not know. Probably lay eggs in a Hyabusa tank full of race gas.



I believe his wheelie record is just shy of the NZ land speed record.

on a public road !!!!
Wanker

I believe at the end there, he is actually in the forecourt of a police station. A lady the spitting image of my mother inlaw walks past, so I assume this is Eastern Europe.

Best I could ever get from my R1 was 189 mph or 304 kph

As seen on the big digi speedo.

Autobahn.

@Flyblown ,Bugatti are made in france like the TGV;-)

I want a 750hp electric Porsche because Elon Musk is a fraud.

Originally Posted by Friwi

@Flyblown ,Bugatti are made in france like the TGV;-)

Yup, made in France (just). By Germans!

I'd rate this guy

https://youtu.be/KubGVzd64rg

300km/h on a ZX14

325 km/h on unrestricted Hayabusa.

It is both a mental, hang on and keep it wide open and don't shut if down till your out of room which takes a lot of self control..
and physical experience of massive wind pressure and noise and very long straights swallowed up in seconds.

sort of a been there done that thing I doubt at my age when I should know better I will probably never repeat.

I'm looking at a container in a paddock, out of my kitchen window. In that container is a Hayabusa. Its probably a 2008/09 model? I remember roughly when the neighbour bought it.

I hate that machine, and I'm none too fond of the guys that give them the berries on public roads. Twice we've come close to a catastrophe with that bike, both times exactly the same thing. Our little road has a short straight, from the exit of the corner at the beginning of the straight, to our driveway is 120m, with the corner exit cresting a blind rise. When you pull out of our driveway turning right, looking left is clear, right is clear, look left again, go.... as you're about 3/4 of the way into the lane, suddenly out of nowhere there's this fucking orange 2-wheeled nightmare trying to go from 180kmh+++, to 0kmh, over about 80m.

Giving a machine like that full throttle on little NZ roads with ordinary folk conducting their business at ordinary speeds, is an exceptionally selfish and unreasonable pastime. I don't much care what happens to the the rider in circumstances like that, its the collateral damage to those that he involves in an accident entirely of his own making that gets to me.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I'm looking at a container in a paddock, out of my kitchen window. In that container is a Hayabusa. Its probably a 2008/09 model? I remember roughly when the neighbour bought it.

I hate that machine, and I'm none too fond of the guys that give them the berries on public roads. Twice we've come close to a catastrophe with that bike, both times exactly the same thing. Our little road has a short straight, from the exit of the corner at the beginning of the straight, to our driveway is 120m, with the corner exit cresting a blind rise. When you pull out of our driveway turning right, looking left is clear, right is clear, look left again, go.... as you're about 3/4 of the way into the lane, suddenly out of nowhere there's this fucking orange 2-wheeled nightmare trying to go from 180kmh+++, to 0kmh, over about 80m.

Giving a machine like that full throttle on little NZ roads with ordinary folk conducting their business at ordinary speeds, is an exceptionally selfish and unreasonable pastime. I don't much care what happens to the the rider in circumstances like that, its the collateral damage to those that he involves in an accident entirely of his own making that gets to me.

I've seen a few riders really give it a go on SH27 in the past, mostly straight and flat I know most will say, but shit road surface. and usually late at night but by the time you seem them they are on you or pretty close to it and bloody hard to tell distance on a single light doing well over the limit

the PAP Brigade- Pin And Pray

Originally Posted by Flyblown

I'm looking at a container in a paddock, out of my kitchen window. In that container is a Hayabusa. Its probably a 2008/09 model? I remember roughly when the neighbour bought it.

I hate that machine, and I'm none too fond of the guys that give them the berries on public roads. Twice we've come close to a catastrophe with that bike, both times exactly the same thing. Our little road has a short straight, from the exit of the corner at the beginning of the straight, to our driveway is 120m, with the corner exit cresting a blind rise. When you pull out of our driveway turning right, looking left is clear, right is clear, look left again, go.... as you're about 3/4 of the way into the lane, suddenly out of nowhere there's this fucking orange 2-wheeled nightmare trying to go from 180kmh+++, to 0kmh, over about 80m.

Giving a machine like that full throttle on little NZ roads with ordinary folk conducting their business at ordinary speeds, is an exceptionally selfish and unreasonable pastime. I don't much care what happens to the the rider in circumstances like that, its the collateral damage to those that he involves in an accident entirely of his own making that gets to me.

You are right @Flyblown. There is a time and a place to unleash a Hayabusa and the situation and place must be right for all involved which should only be the bike and rider as there shouldn't be another road user for miles around.
However don't hate the bike mate, it's a bit like those evil AR rifles it all comes down to the user.
A few dickheads give the machine / weapon a bad rap.