Monthly Archives: May 2019
The story of the appearance of racing cars “Silver Arrows”
The situation was desperate. Before the start of the international race, “Eiffelrennen” remained quite a bit when the Rennlighter (manager, as we would say now) of the Mercedes-Benz team Alfred Neubauer heard that his cars weigh almost a whole kilogram more than the 750 kg limit. Continue reading
DREG Racing: 530 km / h
So we got to the machines, whose purpose – driving only in a straight line, and the minimum turning radius can be tens of meters. Dragsters are adapted to “squeeze everything out of themselves” at a distance from ⅛ to ¼ miles at the start from the spot.
Dregster class Top Fuel travels three hundred meters in 3.7 seconds. At the same time, fuel consumption (a mixture of nitromethane with methanol) is about 50 liters per second.
Awesome power: how dregster works Continue reading
The fastest cars in the world
At each Formula 1 Grand Prix in Sochi, I involuntarily overhear the same question: “Dad, are these the fastest cars in the world?”. There are two answer options: “Yes, son, the fastest” or “No, son, there is even faster.” And both popes are right in their own way, but they have no time to enter into lengthy explanations. Continue reading