by dr fabio » Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:57 am
I race on a road course 33 metre track. Main straight is about 10m (or 30 feet). It is interesting to see some cars really accelerate hard onto the straight and max out by half distance. Then other cars that accelerate slower but go on to have a higher top speed and start to wind in that advantage. It then becomes a trade off of acceleration versus top end speed. Personally I think 55 feet would be too long. 30 feet would be about right. Or maybe make it 27.5 feet for a 1/8 mile. But that's just me, why not 220 feet and go for the flying mile record attempt. :lol: