Speed Comparison: GT vs. F1

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Speed Comparison: GT vs. F1

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The difference in speed between a Fast car and a Formula 1 car.

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https://youtu.be/K2cNqaPSHv0
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The range of cars (a Ford Focus goes through the shot) shows this isn't a race situation. It is comparing track day to F1.

Get a shot of the actual race GT cars going through Eau Rouge - WEC were at Spa last month).

And then get a shot of the LMP1 cars doing it.

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Or, check this out from way back in - 1970, a brace of 917's side-by-side, hard at it, in the wet..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJZfeNBSuY
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

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& still at Spa-F, at the G.P., still way fast, way back in `39 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu_x-0PllUc

( Sadly, Dick Seamen - & no, its NOT a made-up porno name - was killed, & given a 'Hero's Death' send off - with full honours, by Hitler.)
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"

Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).

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