Fastest motorist to be sentenced

divine` · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:45

I know it was wrong, no need to correct me, i'm not actually mentally retarded

Foghorn Leghorn · 24 Sep 2007 at 22:53

Fog

Kingy · 25 Sep 2007 at 00:04

Sagalout said:
I dont know what the braking distance would be be 250M sounds optimistic. You're travelling at 80 meters every second.

I think I read one of the more respected tech guys on here (entai?) say that it takes twice as long to decelerate from 120-60, as it does to decelerate from 60-0.

Based on the assumption that the M3 braking figures were accurate (they didn't seem unreasonable given that today's speed limits were based around a 70's Princess IIRC), and doubling that 34m for 60-0, and doubling that 68m for 180-120, meant a 238m total. It's not unreasonable to believe that the 997TT with 20% more power would be equipped with equal/better brakes than the M3.

An opinion based on a lot of regurgitated facts and stats, and happy to be corrected, but I'd bet a tenner to charity that the actual braking distance is closer to 250 meters than almost half a mile...

On another note, I keep reading people making reference to VMAX? What's that?

OpenToSuggestions · 25 Sep 2007 at 00:52

whilst you do have to say 172mph is incredibly fast, just think if he had hit another car going the other way, would be a collision of over 200mph...

[TW]Fox · 25 Sep 2007 at 01:00

mglover070588 said:
whilst you do have to say 172mph is incredibly fast, just think if he had hit another car going the other way, would be a collision of over 200mph...

Yea but he didnt, did he? So thats irrelevent.

Simon · 25 Sep 2007 at 01:08

mglover070588 said:
whilst you do have to say 172mph is incredibly fast, just think if he had hit another car going the other way, would be a collision of over 200mph...

Just imagine if an aeroplane also used my private runway as a landing strip too

Tute · 25 Sep 2007 at 01:30

Muncher said:
Nice to know we now have plenty of space in our prisons...

This is exactly what I thought. We're letting dangerous criminals go early so that...

...we can put motorists in their place?

I know he was doing a ridiculous speed - but the whole thing is just retarded. What about the guy who escaped prison for paedophilia?

Speeding > Child Molesting... apparantly. :rolleyes:

Kingy · 25 Sep 2007 at 09:06

mglover070588 said:
whilst you do have to say 172mph is incredibly fast, just think if he had hit another car going the other way, would be a collision of over 200mph...

I think this one got put to bed as well.

IIRC, a head on collison with say 2 cars doing 60mph is not a 120mph crash, it is a 120mph closing speed, and a 60mph impact speed, apparently the energy and momentum of the 2 cars doing identical speeds (I'm not sure, but I'd have though size and weight would affect this) is equal, and similar to hitting a wall/immovable object at 60mph.