S2000 in the INdy 500. Hypothetical
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From: SJC
Originally Posted by beanolo,Jun 21 2007, 02:57 PM
christ man.
Now, if Jesus were driving an S2000 in the 1957 Indy 500
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Originally Posted by jedwards,Jun 2 2004, 12:08 PM
I could have posted this elsewhere (S2000 Talk for example) but would rather here the opinions of the WHores first.
Given a big time machine and able to take your S and gas etc to the past... how far back would you have to go to win the Indy 500? I've wondered about this for some time.
The S can go about 250 miles on a fill at roughly 100 MPH with a good to great degree of reliability. I'm not sure how fast the S could take those corners but it would be up there.
Rick Harroun won the first 500 in 1911 with an average speed of 74.59 mph. I don't recall if there were yellows to slow the pace.
What do you think?
Given a big time machine and able to take your S and gas etc to the past... how far back would you have to go to win the Indy 500? I've wondered about this for some time.
The S can go about 250 miles on a fill at roughly 100 MPH with a good to great degree of reliability. I'm not sure how fast the S could take those corners but it would be up there.
Rick Harroun won the first 500 in 1911 with an average speed of 74.59 mph. I don't recall if there were yellows to slow the pace.
What do you think?
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Jun 21 2007, 03:58 PM
No, just AJ Foyt. . . don't get ahead of yourself.
Now, if Jesus were driving an S2000 in the 1957 Indy 500
Now, if Jesus were driving an S2000 in the 1957 Indy 500
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[COLOR=red]Time Machine: S2000 at the Indianapolis 500
Responsible Parties
Prepared By
jedwards
Contributors
morgan
WestSideBilly
Chazmo
Revision History
Version Date Description of Revision Approval and Date
V0.1 06/04/2004 - 06/14/2004 Discussion in forum 06/14/2004
v1.0 06/21/2007 First publication
Table of Contents
List of Tables 2
1 Problem Statement 3
1.1 Objective 3
2 Factors to consider 3
2.1 Assumptions 3
2.2 Historical Notes: 3
2.3 Questions: 4
3 Discussion 5
3.1 Discussion of Historical Details 5
3.2 Most important factors: 6
3.3 Tires: 6
3.4 Speed: 7
3.5 Fuel: 7
4 Conclusions 8
4.1 How would we do? 8
List of Tables
Table 1. Average Speeds of Indy 500 winners over history of race 4
Table 2. Various Average Speeds of Indy 500 over history of race 5
Table 3. Various Average Speeds of Indy 500 over period of interest 6
Table 4. Winners and winning times of Indy 500 between 1950 and 1960 8
1 Problem Statement
1.1 Objective
Responsible Parties
Prepared By
jedwards
Contributors
morgan
WestSideBilly
Chazmo
Revision History
Version Date Description of Revision Approval and Date
V0.1 06/04/2004 - 06/14/2004 Discussion in forum 06/14/2004
v1.0 06/21/2007 First publication
Table of Contents
List of Tables 2
1 Problem Statement 3
1.1 Objective 3
2 Factors to consider 3
2.1 Assumptions 3
2.2 Historical Notes: 3
2.3 Questions: 4
3 Discussion 5
3.1 Discussion of Historical Details 5
3.2 Most important factors: 6
3.3 Tires: 6
3.4 Speed: 7
3.5 Fuel: 7
4 Conclusions 8
4.1 How would we do? 8
List of Tables
Table 1. Average Speeds of Indy 500 winners over history of race 4
Table 2. Various Average Speeds of Indy 500 over history of race 5
Table 3. Various Average Speeds of Indy 500 over period of interest 6
Table 4. Winners and winning times of Indy 500 between 1950 and 1960 8
1 Problem Statement
1.1 Objective
