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30-08-2011, 12:59 AM | #27 | |||
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Drag cars have tyres with coefficients of friction in the 2-2.5 range, 0.9 is ultimately just a high performance passenger car tyre. If the drag car was powered by an electric motor of the same power(we are talking 2000hp+ here), it would be be only able to achieve ~half the acceleration of one with a fuel motor. Reason being: the vertical thrust from the exhaust gases of the fuel motor provide enough thrust to ~double the force over the back wheels, doubling the force that the tyres can provide before slipping at launch, but not having to accelerate double the mass, hence getting the accel into the 5g region. so 100km/h in 0.9 secs, requires 3.2g of accel or tyres with coefficient of friction of 3.2(nope they dont exist), and unless the thing has some pipes pointing skywards, I say hoax, or perhaps its got a jet or rocket engine attached! |
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