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Andy Wallace famously set a world speed record in a McLaren F1. On 31 March 1998, he strapped himself into the three-seat, V12-engined hypercar, set the steering wheel straight along VW"s Ehra-Lessien circuit, and floored it. He managed a whopping 240.1mph, scoring a top speed world record in the process. Though that figure has today been eclipsed by the likes of Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg, it remains the fastest top speed for a car powered by a naturally aspirated engine. Scary run, too, according to Andy. "The car only had 626bhp," he tells TopGear.com, "so therefore it had low drag, and low downforce and really started to wander. When you watch the video, you don"t really see a lot, but if a car"s wandering at 200mph+, it"s really quite scary.
Date written: 1 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
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Andy Wallace famously set a world speed record in a McLaren F1. On 31 March 1998, he strapped himself into the three-seat, V12-engined hypercar, set the steering wheel straight along VW"s Ehra-Lessien circuit, and floored it. He managed a whopping 240.1mph, scoring a top speed world record in the process. Though that figure has today been eclipsed by the likes of Bugatti, Hennessey and Koenigsegg, it remains the fastest top speed for a car powered by a naturally aspirated engine. Scary run, too, according to Andy. "The car only had 626bhp," he tells TopGear.com, "so therefore it had low drag, and low downforce and really started to wander. When you watch the video, you don"t really see a lot, but if a car"s wandering at 200mph+, it"s really quite scary.
Date written: 1 Sep 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 13160
