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Want to know just how fast the Bloodhound SSC land speed record car is compared to a regular supercar? Course you do. So here"s a chart of how it compares to the McLaren 720S based on the data the team have got off the car during testing at Newquay Airport. We"ll regroup below and do a bit of analysis. Bloodhound 720S<br />0-10mph 1.28 0.46<br />0-20: 1.89 0.96<br />0-30: 2.37 1.40<br />0-40: 2.78 1.82<br />0-50: 3.15 2.30<br />0-60: 3.50 2.77<br />0-70: 3.81 3.33<br />0-80: 4.11 3.93<br />0-90: 4.42 4.59<br />0-100: 4.73 5.31<br />0-110: 5.05 6.14<br />0-120: 5.36 7.06<br />0-130: 5.78 8.16<br />0-140: 5.99 9.38<br />0-150: 6.30 11.0150-150: 3.15 8.71St mile: 9.25 10.19<br />@: 193.8 146.0Got all that? Good. There"s obviously plenty here to be getting our teeth into. So let"s have a look at the figures first before we go into an explanation of exactly what"s happening and why.The fact I particularly like is that in the mere 1.75 seconds it takes the McLaren 720S to accelerate from 100mph to 120mph (that"s astonishingly fast, a Tesla P100D takes almost precisely twice that long 3.51 seconds), Bloodhound is north of 155mph. In fact from 60mph onwards it piles on 30mph every second, maintaining an almost constant 1.5g acceleration.But the 720S, with its binding connection between road and rubber, makes all the early running. It"s 0.8secs ahead at 10mph, and has pulled that out to almost a second across 20, 30 and 40mph. But then Bloodhound starts to peg it back and the gaps start dropping, slowly first, then faster and faster: 0.85secs behind at 50mph, then 0.73, 0.48 and 0.18.The trouble is that from the word go (or at least once wheelspin has been contained) the McLaren"s rate of acceleration is slowing down. Bloodhound, meanwhile, is barely getting into its stride.
Date written: 20 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9624
Want to know just how fast the Bloodhound SSC land speed record car is compared to a regular supercar? Course you do. So here"s a chart of how it compares to the McLaren 720S based on the data the team have got off the car during testing at Newquay Airport. We"ll regroup below and do a bit of analysis. Bloodhound 720S<br />0-10mph 1.28 0.46<br />0-20: 1.89 0.96<br />0-30: 2.37 1.40<br />0-40: 2.78 1.82<br />0-50: 3.15 2.30<br />0-60: 3.50 2.77<br />0-70: 3.81 3.33<br />0-80: 4.11 3.93<br />0-90: 4.42 4.59<br />0-100: 4.73 5.31<br />0-110: 5.05 6.14<br />0-120: 5.36 7.06<br />0-130: 5.78 8.16<br />0-140: 5.99 9.38<br />0-150: 6.30 11.0150-150: 3.15 8.71St mile: 9.25 10.19<br />@: 193.8 146.0Got all that? Good. There"s obviously plenty here to be getting our teeth into. So let"s have a look at the figures first before we go into an explanation of exactly what"s happening and why.The fact I particularly like is that in the mere 1.75 seconds it takes the McLaren 720S to accelerate from 100mph to 120mph (that"s astonishingly fast, a Tesla P100D takes almost precisely twice that long 3.51 seconds), Bloodhound is north of 155mph. In fact from 60mph onwards it piles on 30mph every second, maintaining an almost constant 1.5g acceleration.But the 720S, with its binding connection between road and rubber, makes all the early running. It"s 0.8secs ahead at 10mph, and has pulled that out to almost a second across 20, 30 and 40mph. But then Bloodhound starts to peg it back and the gaps start dropping, slowly first, then faster and faster: 0.85secs behind at 50mph, then 0.73, 0.48 and 0.18.The trouble is that from the word go (or at least once wheelspin has been contained) the McLaren"s rate of acceleration is slowing down. Bloodhound, meanwhile, is barely getting into its stride.
Date written: 20 Oct 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9624
