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I understood it as a comparsion with the FIA F1 World Championship and not the McLaren F1 but I recorded it so I will check again to see if I was wrong.

It is not the first time that they compared it to a F1 car, last year when Jenson Button drove the Liana JC made a comment that he would be faster in the Veyron than Jenson Button in his Honda F1 car :)

I think the comparison is a little stupid as a F1 car is not designed for speed but designed to get round a corner very fast and as such it smokes the Veyron on a track.
 
chrisd said:
They're talking about a Mclaren f1 road car, not an F1 car.
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No they're not.
They (TG in this instance) were comparing it to an Formula One car - watch the clip again ;)

JRS said:
The former is okay, the latter is slightly silly.
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Hence the reason for my post above
 
Dutch Guy said:
I understood it as a comparsion with the FIA F1 World Championship and not the McLaren F1 but I recorded it so I will check again to see if I was wrong.
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That's what I thought as well. I'm sure they were saying "an F1 car" which would imply a Formula 1 car not the McLaren F1.
 
James May even said "The reason why Michael Schumacher retired is because I'm faster". Clearly a throw away comment but it fitted in with the rest of his F1 car comparisons.
 
I think a Group C racecar like the cars that race Le Mans 24h are a better comparison to a Veyron than a Formula 1 car as they are also built for speed rather than cornering.
 
Dutch Guy said:
I think a Group C racecar like the cars that race Le Mans 24h are a better comparison to a Veyron than a Formula 1 car as they are also built for speed rather than cornering.
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Dont take this the wrong way but i think anyone building a race car will not go for outright speed without considering cornering speed. Whats the point in being able to do 200+ down a straight if you can only do <50 round the corners? Plus hasn't group c been extinct since about 1993?
 
tonyyeb said:
Dont take this the wrong way but i think anyone building a race car will not go for outright speed without considering cornering speed. Whats the point in being able to do 200+ down a straight if you can only do <50 round the corners? Plus hasn't group c been extinct since about 1993?
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Yeah, I don't know what the current champion is called but cars that race a 24 hour race like Le Mans benefit more from being able to drive 250mph because the track has a lot of long straights and sacrifice cornering speed.

A F1 car has massive downforce so it can corner very fast, the Veyron has very little downforce to get to 253mph so a comparison between the two is flawed.
 
Maybe you should give up watching Top Gear if you can't recognise they were talking about Formula One cars and join the ranks of people that misinterpret everything on the show and complain to the BBC. Mclaren F1 didn't even cross my mind in that segment since what they were talking about was so blindingly obvious!
 
quite quality on the golf course - they looked hilarious :D

f1 racing car, didn't even begin to think it was anything other esp with the schueeeee coment
 
Baz said:
And to be honest, not the fastest bloke in a jet car as Martin Hill year before last at Santa pod touched 350mph in Fireforce 3... not a record though, as he can't really do a return journey :d
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was 330mph, and Hammond didn't back it up either
 
The Veyron piece was the only real highlight of a rather weak show... But it was worth it. You really got a sensation of speed from the rear facing camera shots, and I loved the 'steely-eyed' shots of Captain Slow as he maxed out the Bugatti!

It looked so easy too. I bet Tiff 'Maclaren F1 lover' Needell would have had a much scarier time topping out his fave supercar.
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Kinda their fault really though, it was too twitchy

I mean 4 seconds off a lap just from fitting a rear wing shows the difference having the proper downforce makes :)
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Rear wing on the Koenigsegg dosn't make much difference to the car, the first one used wasn't setup properly for track use. The second car had heavily revised suspension.
 
Dutch Guy said:
Yeah, I don't know what the current champion is called but cars that race a 24 hour race like Le Mans benefit more from being able to drive 250mph because the track has a lot of long straights and sacrifice cornering speed.

A F1 car has massive downforce so it can corner very fast, the Veyron has very little downforce to get to 253mph so a comparison between the two is flawed.
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The track used for the Le Man 24h is a brutal combination of long(ish) straights now that the Mulsanne has the two chicanes and some very fast corners. Cornering speed is just as important now as top speed. Back in the final years of Group C Jaguar entered the XJR-12 in low drag configuration and also an XJR-14 3.5ltr car. The 14 was nearly as fast as the 12 round the complete lap (despite being badly baulked in the Porsche curves) yet was nearly 40mph slower in a straight line.
 
One More Solo said:
Maybe you should give up watching Top Gear if you can't recognise they were talking about Formula One cars and join the ranks of people that misinterpret everything on the show and complain to the BBC. Mclaren F1 didn't even cross my mind in that segment since what they were talking about was so blindingly obvious!
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I missed the TG episode in question but my comment was a reference to the fact that on these forums, people frequently confuse an F1 car with the McF1.

But thanks for the patronising reply anyway.
 
They do make both so its a fair mistake even if the differences are great. The engine from the road going F1 was originally destined for a Bmw M8 I once read
 
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