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Old Mar 7, 2014 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by jaiscossie
Some of the cars like the aventador are they standard? if so then this is a bit pointless as everyone knows they car do 200+ out of the box the same with most of the modern ferraris etc. Is it only highly tunes cars that can enter?

Your not getting the distance they do it in. Dont know of any Production Ferrari that will reach 200mph in 1.5 miles even an Enso/599 cant do that. A Macca 1 just made 200mph at Brunters as did the Aventador. The other cars are there to see what there cars can do legally not beat the highly tuned cars. This event is just a long quarter mile its not a Topspeed finding event you would need a 4 mile straight to do that think the Macca took over 5 to reach its Topspeed. A rule of thumb is you need 700bhp to do it in that distance. The best aero cars can do it with 630 a Cossie around 730 to be sure. Seen big Merc with 700bhp just tad 190mph & im sure a double decker bus would need 10k horses .
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