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I found this quite interesting. Not sure if you guys saw this clip before.
I think this is a good event to have one day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQEYHa42uE&sns=em

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I'm for it, but we need two things - enough space and enough straight track sections!
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Oh yes... we'll also need something to measure terminal speed.
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I'm pretty sure that our guys' top speeds will be very impressive. Even average speeds now are amazing. I'm not sure what FRC's exact track length is but I believe that it is about 75'. If so, a 5.0 second lap equals 15 '/sec. which in scale speed translates to 327.3 mph. And that is AVERAGE speed !! Current 1:1 F1 cars rarely make it into the 130 mph territory.
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