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[Autumnpuma]

Congratulations to Honda for setting a new F1 speed record and breaking two existing land speed marks.

Read the website here:

http://www.bonnevill...sh/default.aspx

itv-f1 article here:

Honda set the world’s first official land speed record for a Formula 1 car at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA, on Monday morning.

The team’s long-awaited Bonneville 400 run, in which a race-legal 2005 BAR-Honda ran along a seven mile-long salt straight, saw the car clock an aggregate speed of 220.571mph over two runs of a measured mile.

As well as setting the new record, Honda broke the best time for its class of vehicle and also achieved a new best speed of 355.499kph for the flying kilometre.

The man behind the wheel of the 007, South African Alan van der Merwe, was delighted to set the records after a difficult start.

“We’ve made huge progress today by setting this new benchmark for an F1 car,” he said.

“On my first runs this morning, I doubted we could do it because the surface was so slippery.

“I had a spin or two, but the salt surface came to us and we were able to set this new record.”

However the ultimate goal of the project is to break the 400kph barrier and the team will go for that target again on Tuesday.

Van der Merwe added that the fact that the team couldn’t hit the mark on day one was a sign of how difficult it is to achieve.

“We haven’t done 400kph yet though, which is our ultimate target,” he said.

"In a way it’s quite nice we didn’t, because it shows that this is a genuine challenge and not just a case of us turning up, nailing it and going home.

“You have to work for every extra mile an hour here and we may not break the 400 mark, but that’s still our goal.”

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Excellent, now perhaps that team can come over to F1 and help Nick Fry kick his Honda in the pants...


EDIT: Mods, I wasn't sure if this went her or in F1 Discussions...it seemed to fit here.

Edited by Autumnpuma, 19 July 2006 - 05:44 AM.

[Ferrariphile]

final aggregate speed: 397. 481 kph, with an "out" run at 400. 454 kph (subject to FIA scrutineering).  Guess they'll have to come back to clinch the 400 kph record, so the story shall continue...

[tvbf1]

I think it's cool how Honda is trying to beat the F-1 speed record, but I'm wondering why.  What I'm trying to say is that, shouldn't they be concentrating on their F1 performance instead.

[Ferrariphile]

tvbf1, on Jul 24 2006, 07:17 PM, said:

I think it's cool how Honda is trying to beat the F-1 speed record, but I'm wondering why.  What I'm trying to say is that, shouldn't they be concentrating on their F1 performance instead.

Of course not, they've got the F1 god incarnate, namely Jenson Button.  He doesn't have to win, his mere presence upon the circuit is enough.

[Jean Todt]

Ferrariphile, on Jul 25 2006, 04:06 AM, said:

Of course not, they've got the F1 god incarnate, namely Jenson Button.  He doesn't have to win, his mere presence upon the circuit is enough.

  


    but, they were using last years Honda with the V-10 right?? if so, i wonder what would have been the speed if they sent a Renault, Mclaren and a Ferrari!!!

[tvbf1]

Ferrariphile, on Jul 24 2006, 09:06 PM, said:

Of course not, they've got the F1 god incarnate, namely Jenson Button.  He doesn't have to win, his mere presence upon the circuit is enough.

As much as I disagree with you and think that Button is over rated.  What you said is just too funny      

[Ferrariphile]

tvbf1, on Jul 25 2006, 01:28 AM, said:

As much as I disagree with you and think that Button is over rated.  What you said is just too funny      

I guess I should have used my [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags.  Not a fan of Jense, but not a hater; just kind of ambivalent.

[nojvnof1]

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Wise choice Mike

[ecapdeville]

Autumnpuma, on Jul 19 2006, 12:09 AM, said:

Congratulations to Honda for setting a new F1 speed record and breaking two existing land speed marks.

Its a shame that F1 is not a 1/4 mile race...

But thinking it...HONDA is a real "Funny" car...

[Autumnpuma]

ecapdeville, on Aug 3 2006, 06:40 PM, said:

Its a shame that F1 is not a 1/4 mile race...

But thinking it...HONDA is a real "Funny" car...

[mikathegreat2]

This shud b moved 2 F1 Disscusions.

[cavallino]

Almost 400 kph in an almost legal F1 car. Bravo Honda bravo. Their next attempt will probably be airdropping their car on Mount Everest, then they can tell us that it's the highest an F1 car has ever been. Or splosh one into the Mariana Trench. Or strap it onto a rocket. Honda, making the implausible marketable.

PS: Mikathegreat, your persistent ability to misspell every possible word in a sentence amazes me