Why It's Almost Impossible For Cars To Go 300 Miles Per Hour | Insider Cars
In 2019, the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300 became the first production car to drive 300 mph. This was almost 15 years after the Bugatti Veyron became the first to reach 250. So why did it take so long for automakers to build a car just 50 mph faster? We explore what makes 300 mph such a difficult benchmark to reach and what automakers like Bugatti have been doing to chase it.
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Why It's Almost Impossible For Cars To Go 300 Miles Per Hour | Insider Cars
No matter how fast we can go... The cameraman is always faster
Fun fact: A supra recorded the bugatti chiron's top speed run
@@shlimey04 😂😂
@@shlimey04 What did the supra fanboy did after beating a Bugatti Chiron? He turned his Xbox off and went to sleep.
@@ifyoureplytomeyouregay4293 dont expose me like that lol
@@shlimey04 Fact Check: it actual wasn’t a Supra, they used another Chiron.
30 years from now- “Why it’s almost impossible for cars to go 400 mph”
Exactly what i thought. With additive manufacturing it's probably less than 30 years away.
While the German autobahns have no speed limit on unrestricted sections... They have worked out a theoretical limit at which the tyres would start destroying the tarmac!
But thats already been broken lol, at 481 mph on the speed demon!
@@sandragarrettmccombs3635 not even a car
@@avdeepsingh9218 Um, yes it is.
Interesting thing is, as a car approaches speeds over 300 mph, the top of the tires are actually traveling twice as fast as the vehicle. The tires themselves are coming very close to breaking the sound barrier haha
I had to think about that for a few minutes, but then I got the “light bolb” moment.
Thrust SSC
That's a genuinely interesting fact, I'm going to horde that in my brain, thank you
Wait pls explain I’m a bit slow
@@temujinartem2375 the car is traveling at 300 mph, if you pick a point on the circumference of the tire and watch the tire go round as the car drives, the car is traveling forward and the point on the circumference of the tire is going forward 2 times as fast as the tire goes round and round.
Thank you for taking the time to break it down to the average human that it's not about raw fast the car is, it's about EVERY single other aspect of the vehicle, the road, the weather that matters as well. In other words driving is physics and people should never forget that.
I mean even how fast the raw car is is still physics
@@NumberOneBlitz yeah but im more talking resistance of air flow against the body surface, brake pressure If you even have the balls to remotely go near the brake pedal at the speed which you really shouldn't, temperature the tires reach, how long the tread is going to last and what exactly are the most optimal conditions for being an idiot ( driving fast ). Like he said the difference between what was it? 120 and 150 is astronomical? It genuinely is, at that speed you have to take compression and rebound rate of your suspension and how nice the roads are, if you're car is too high off the ground you start to float as opposed to be glued to the ground so you fight not only the air you're driving into but the air trying to lift you off the ground. Honestly driving is physics and it's really nice when people understand that, they see raw HP # and top speed numbers and don't care about how the brakes or suspension was created, I'm interested in the suspension and brakes and tires that went into that feat
@@NumberOneBlitz I believe after like 240mph an engineer said you run the risk of de laminating a tire all together or it quite literally expanding from centrifugal force. Science is fascinating, it's just something alot of people don't take into account when driving, be it stopping distance or reaction time alot of people think that because their car cost alot it will keep them safe
@@NumberOneBlitz wait a second, was that a play on my misspelling, if so good on you sir it took me a whole day to clue in lmao
Do people forget that driving is physics? Do you think people while hydroplaning on the highway smack their foreheads and go "Oh man, I forgot!" Also, everything is physics.
Him : why 300mph is almost impossible Kids in forza : observe
World Race and Acceleracers: Hmph! Amateur.
@@halfhawk718 Me: what did you say? Half Hawk: AMATEURS!!!
@@halfhawk718 Ah, I see your a man of culture aswell
Well in *FORZA* when you crash you won’t die and have infintie chances where as in real life only a single crash at that speed can kill you
@@halfhawk718 I went and googled acceleracers lmao
*I paid for the whole speedometer, I'm using the whole speedometer*
💀😂
😂😂😂😂
lol
Damn right!!!!
Our whole runway.
ive been 202.4 mph in 2013 at tx2k and i cant imagine what it would feel like doing 100mph more its just crazy man how much ground you cover you have to decide on a small adjustment seconds before its needed
yeah...pretty common speed on the highways here in Houston.
@@tommyribfinger7520 yeah I live in Florida and I thought I was big shit hit in 202 until I came to Texas lol every other car at the event was hitting over 200 i was like 28 at the time im nearing 40 now and my 911 never sees over 100 on a good day
but it's crazy how slow 150 feels after that 200mph sprint.
I’m jealous I wanna see what that feels like. I’ve only been at 180 in a viper
@@Jfreerz 180 in a viper is scary enough man lol those r dangerous cars well not the new ones but mid 2000s n earlier has zero save your ass systems i did that speed above in my pro charged 13 z06 at the time
The actual reason is because technology just hasn’t improved enough until now. We’ve been capable of building cars that exceed speeds far beyond 300mph for a long time now, but this is regarding reaching 300mph in a PRODUCTION CAR. And figuring out how to make a car that could go 300 while still being road legal is incredibly difficult.
Road cars are noticeably heavier than dragsters and track cars so yeah.
This guy gets it.
I say we change the definition of what is road legal. Build cars that span 2 lanes, we'd do well above 500mph
@@thanhvinhnguyento7069 you’re joking right? With how many idiots in cars videos I’ve seen of them going 70 mph
The poor bugs that hit that Bugatti probably got sent to an alternate reality
Lmao
not really they just got immediantly crushed, a good way to die
I don't think they would hit it at all, due to the airflow yeeting them around the car
Whether hit at 30mph or 300mph dead is dead.
@@jo_naash nope, momentum is always stronger than airflow. If they hit at 60 mph they will hit even more at 300 mph
The funny thing is that there is only few places in the world where you can actually go 300 mph
Exactly what’s the point
@@thekidnasir6562 to go fast
@@Fr00stee bruh
@@Fr00stee 😂
I feel like someone might get mad if you took your Koenigsegg Regera on the autobahn lol
Lift vs down force is a HUGE problem. The weight to power ratio of these cars are exceeding WWII single seat fighter planes. Staying on the ground as a car versus becoming a kite is a big issue. At some point notwithstanding jet cars tested at Bonneville, cars will have a speed maximum
Eh... just strap a viper ACR wing on the back. You'll need another 1,000 on top of the existing power but... no flight
Chaparral 2J '70 my beloved
@@MaybeShimo absolutely
@@MaybeShimo lmao 🤣 got you
The weight does not matter, it’s all about high downforce and low drag
I think most motorcyclists already have a basic understanding of this concept. I used to ride an FZ-07 (it's a "naked bike" with no wind shield or fairings to "hide" behind) and let me tell yah what, the wind resistance is trying to tear you off the bike the whole time. 60mph isn't too bad, 80mph and you're gonna need to hold yourself on, 100mph and its starting to turn into a workout, and anything over 120mph requires some strength.
Yeah naked bikes are always a challenge. I used to hit 133 on my fz-09, it almost felt like I was being thrown around on the highway. Steering dampers do help a little
120 on an fz07 is real impressive. That's quite literally pushing that bike the the very limit of its capabilities.
170 on my old 02 yamaha R6, and ya i was tucked in hard and deep.
@@zac9933 I hit 142mph as my top speed and Im about 6'3 200lbs. 6th gear wasnt quite at the redline but it was getting close. I absolutely found the maximum speed I could go on that bike.
@@tonyatthebeach now your knees are sore for an entirely different reason.
Cars IRL: *can go over 300+ mph* GTA Online: “Best I can do is 120”
125 if you hit some bumps
California emissions
Jets IRL: *can go over 800+ mph* GTA Online: "Best I can do is 150"
145 in the city with a Pariah
@@jacobsalas9204 300 if you're falling from a plane
It’almost impossible to reach 300mph 90s Honda civic owner at 2am: hold my beer
Lol
300 meters per hour.
Just beer? Lol
'You need to start with tires' Polly Trans Am; 'I ignored it and succeded anyway'.
Midnight club: are you challenging me?
The current holder of the Outright World Land Speed Record is ThrustSSC driven by Andy Green, a twin turbofan jet-powered car which achieved 763.035 mph - 1227.985 km/h - over one mile in October 1997. This is the first supersonic record as it exceeded the sound barrier at Mach 1.016.
Yea I’ve heard of it. That’s Cool and all with literal metal tires. But it’s not a car you can drive lol
thats not road legal
Vert Wheeler: "Welp... Going for the record! Fastest time ever!"
Koenigsegg is exactly correct: around Mach .3 air is considered a compressible fluid.
it is well known from aircraft industry
@@makantahi3731 How well known outside it, though? Cause I did not know that
@@magnithorson6568 on first lessons on aerodinamics, in highscool , when was explained properties of air, it is not noticable compressable below some 300km/h, after that it starts to compress as much as speed rises, but ratio of compression depends shape of object that moves , (trains in long tunel can make sonic boom if tunel does not have vents because it pushes mass of air in front of train and if train goes enough fast and clearance between tunel walls and train is too tight, and air is compressed and in some moment air become supersonic speed around train
But air is a compressible fluid... speed has nothing to do with that.
@@thefirehawk1495 maybe for you when pumping tyres, but we here discus about free flow around moving object on speeds below 300km/h
“Tires are the only part touching the ground” *bold of you to assume I’m that good at driving!*
Tesla is Coming out with a Elect. Car that will do 186,282 Miles Per Second,, Yea That's right the Speed of Light !!! And they will be VERY VERY VERY Expensive !!! And Only the Dudes that are Worth Billions can Buy One Sweet Huh !!!!
@@rogerhegemier8491 you're joking right?
@Nature Taco uhhh
@@thebaguettecompany their trolling
@@moist5344 yeah i know....
It would be cool to learn more about how these forces affects the driver's reaction times and handling at higher speeds versus lower speeds. Very informative video, through.
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Sure! Is a better way to counter this foreseen inflation, because all this wars everywhere are politics.
Living in one's "comfort zone" is a contributing cause to the plight of young people.
Fear is a total failure when you give up Ambitiousness; and Success is a game of dice, you throw your $coin while your investment decides your goal.
@@samiraabubakar2963 they said when you invest little money you earn big,
Can't even imagine how it is possible
It's actually because it's very difficult for the engineers to count that high. Think about it, when was the last time you counted to 300?
last night... i was so bored
uhh last week i was counting to 300 seconds (5 minutes) till my birthday
Ive done it a shit ton of times trying to beat my futball (soccer) juggling record. My current highest is 3,146
We have a group chat of engineering students and there’s a counting bot for it. You have to count by taking turns and you can use addition, division, etc, to count a number (if you’re feeling fancy enough). We have yet to count pass like 150 lmao 🤣
@@woobooeckyuck7338 bro, u ok?
"It's *almost* impossible" *"No, it's necessary"*
Reference from
Interstellar docking scene
@@reidschoeffler727 I knew it
300 mph is pretty much aircraft take-off speed.
*music and spinning intensifies*
I’ve taken my car to 163mph and it was a trip how fast things come at you and how much you have to think ahead.
I remember when I was 16 and dumb, I took my '93 (stock) Civic (in 2001) to 117mph on an expressway in the middle of the night and I thought the whole car was going to fall apart
@@weston407 the car I took to 163 was a Porsche 911 so it was “made” to do that. It was still scary. I think I was dumb too.
@@weston407 I took my 98 civic stock to 117 mph and it was like I wasn’t touching the ground anymore. It’s like playing a video game and you are just controlling the direction with no resistance
And it's a trip how long it would take to avoid something, or stop before hitting it at that speed. 8/10th of a football field covered in 1 second doing 163 mph.
You start looking further and further down then road and the only thing you think about is what is in front of you.
As someone with a 2004 Subaru Legacy that once did 85 MPH on a freeway, I can say I couldn't possibly drive a Bugatti sports car. I was white-knuckled and barely blinked for the entire half-hour before pulling onto an exit. Seeing signs go flying past when I live in an area where it's rare to see a 55mph sign, I can't imagine needing to go over a hundred. That being said, if I win the lottery, you can bet I'll be taking some lessons. Always wanted to go fast!
Lmfaooo 😂😂 85 mph lil slowbaroo hippie boy think that’s fast 😂😂😂 he said white knuckled😂at 85mph
@@brandonmessi4938 ooooh you're hard 🙄
@@brandonmessi4938 not everybody is you my guy
300mph is almost impossible NFS cop cars : let me introduce myself
😂😂😂 so trueeee
Going 350mph Looks in rear view mirror. Crown vic flashing you to move over.
Even their crap lil cars can go as fast as a gt venom
Like fr whats the point of even upgrading your car
More like GTA 5 cops them mfs will catch up to the fully upgraded most expensive car in the game
When he said Bugatti's biggest competitor was Hennessey, I automatically lost all respect and belief in his information. Koenigsegg has a history of not only breaking records, but by huge margins and the Jesko Absolut is poised to do the exact same thing without a shadow of a doubt.
Tafara Gadze jesko hasn’t done it yet bud slow ur roll.
@@jj2x210 and the buggati chiron ss isn't a production car so his facts aren't right koeingsegg is the fastest production car
Hennessy just modify cars. Shouldn't even be said in the same breath as any other manufacturer
@@SCOOPS2601 the f5 is a completely unique car? The venom may have had a lotus Elise body, but it was on its own platform. Everything else was hennesey’s own
Bro can you hear he said one of the biggest competitors not the biggest competitor
This was really interesting. Thanks!
Fantastic video. Thank you. And @1:54 thank you for using revolutions per second. Any spinning beyond 100rpm or so is more easily conceptualized as revolutions per second. Hundreds or thousands of rpm I always have to convert in my head to try to imagine.
“Good afternoon sir, the reason I pulled you over today is bc you were going 300 in 35. L&R please”
How did you catch me lol
@@BuRtnzAtN the infraction occurred 3 states away obv lol
@@DontBeLikeAlex lmao
Top fuel car be like "ez'
@@DontBeLikeAlex pffff
I learned something new today “Tires matter”
*tyre's lives matter!!
I guess Im changing from the soviet army leftover tires to michelin to my supercar
People who race at Bonneville have known this for decades.
White tires matter!
All Tyres matter...... ;-)
Fastest I have ever gone in a car was 320km/hr. The car was still picking up speed but the pavement was coming up too fast. It was on a dead road with no traffic in a 2007 C6 Corvette with a Callaway Supercharger kit installed. It was no Porsche, Lambo or Ferrari but to me it was a dream come true! The sound that supercharger made was visceral!
Did that car and experience injustice by putting the speed you went in Km/hr.
@@Mostly-Nuts average American standard enjoyer 🤢🤮
@@Mostly-Nuts Just using km/h already shows that the man has an intellect superior to anyone who uses miles per cup of tea
@@pedro.alcatra 🗿
@@pedro.alcatra wrong mph>>>>kmh
Awesome video!
Hello people from the future wondering why we thought it was so difficult, when the Bugatti Vandenberg can go to 600 mph.
@@CARILYNF oR tHe ToYotA sUpRa mk50!
Funny thing is, Bugatti, is not only being possibly acquired by Rimac, but they have already confirmed, that for the next five decades, they will be focusing instead on their extremely limited production cars. Cars like the La Voiture Noir are just the first of this new phase, they will no longer be pursuing top speed records for quite some time as well.
@@rewindproductions7261 yes and rimac will be 49% Porsche which is Part of vw
Deloraine did it first
@@Crikey. BMW M100!!!
Lightning mqueen is well faster buggati speed up
Lighting McQueen does 196mph in the movies fastest production Bugatti you can buy does 261+ mph
And Jackson Storm owned him without even going into 3rd gear.
Y’all do know About the Chevy Corvette Callaway “Sledgehammer” 256mph back in 1988?
Hi non-cultured ppl. Done with your arguments?
@@sandalphoncpu they didn’t get the amazing joke.
This is a very good video content. Good job to the producers‼️
Very informative video!
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Maxed out 223mph lol
Ha ha ha.😂
@@luisroman006 I thought it maxed out at 290
@@stbwraxpz9790 not according to Hennessy
Him: why 300 mph is almost impossible Koenigsegg: hold my beer
hold my rear wing
Hold my tires
Hold my speedometer
They haven’t done it yet, only Bugatti has
@@beanrefraction9530 the koenigsegg jesko absolut hits 331 mph
"Increasing exponentially as the square of the speed..." That's polynomial growth NOT exponential growth...
My Chevy metro had a four cylinder engine with only three gears of forward. It sounded like a jet engine at 60+ mph.
Clearly you haven't seen me trying to escape my wife when she's angry.
Not in your Bugatti because she has half of it.
Fak
Lol you win the internet for the week lmao
Top fuel car be like "ez'
@@roflmao5642 I don’t know any Indian food jokes Naan
I hit 185 I'm my RS7. And my hands were clammy has hell, not to mention how fast my heart was pounding. I couldn't imagine going 300. Wow
YYYEEEEAAAAAHHHHH BBOOOYYY!!! 🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍 kind'ov shakey legs when it's over and you're putting your feet back on the ground...
Same for me in my CTS V. After 180 things FLY BY lol. Better than drugs horsepower is :)
Probably from the fear of being caught and getting your licenses revoked 😭😭😭 I love driving fast I went 130 in my Altima but after that I thought if I get caught I’m done 🤦🏻🤦🏻
@@ywsn7120 there is no fear of getting caught... there is much caution of somebody changing lanes... 🚕 🏍️
@@ywsn7120 I don't care about that at the time when you are going 170 all you care about is your tires losing grip and you lose control or someone on their phone and they don't see before they change lanes thats way more scarier than getting your license revoked.
There's a technical error at 1:10. The force required to overcome air resistance increases as the square of speed, not the cube. The POWER required increases as the cube of speed.
You're right, and there's an even worse error at 0:51 where he says that the square of the speed is exponential.
@@insane_troll you guys should write a letter
Great video, 👍
Why it’s almost impossible for cars to go 30- Cameraman: “PHEW” thank god I’m not a car
Top fuel car be like "ez' he sit in one , 10000 horse power baby
@@hieunguyenac2350 dragster
The effect of aerodynamic drag was made very apparent to me when I made a 4 hour drive, spent an hour at destination then drove back. The net direction of travel was east to west. There was a stiff and constant westerly wind blowing all day resulting in about a 30% difference in fuel burn between the down wind and upwind legs.
It's also apparent to anyone who's ridden a motorcycle, since you literally feel the drag on your body intensify (and become nigh unbearable over 120mph)
@@TheMonkeystick more so if you rode a bike through strong wind. It makes you exert so much more force.
Very nice video!
100 years time: why's it's almost impossible to time travel in a Bugatti
900mph
Time travel is actually impossible though.
@@ibrahimbaghdadi2187 ........ it’s a joke kid
@@ibrahimbaghdadi2187 people at some point thought flying in airplanes or generating electricity was impossible too so you never know.
You just need to go 88mph and have some plutonium in the engine its not that hard
"Why It's almost impossible for cars to go 300 miles per hour" Me: *Laughs in Nitrox 2*
I want you to know this comment speaks to me on a personal level and reminds me of my childhood. I appreciate you.
@@benmcdonough4340 You're welcome dude!
Acceleracers🥺
*Random Portal Opens*
hot wheels: world race type beat
And that goes to show how incredible top fuel dragsters are. They hit 330mph in 1000 feet in under 4 seconds.
And like mentioned in the video, their tires turn into complete putty going off the line, they look like balloon animals.
Yeah but how far are they gonna get on a normal road with turns? At least this Bugatti can be practical to use and STILL beat most dragster cars lmao
@@andrewwheat7805 it doesn't come close to beating a dragster in a drag race. A dragster is going beyond 300mph faster than the Bugatti gets to 100mph. It would literally get gapped by half the track.
@@andrewwheat7805 top fuel is faster
@@stephenwhite5444 true but think he is talking about on the road
Great video.
Just the fact that a car hit 300 mph is insane.
"increasing exponentially as the square of the speed..."
Not even gon pretend i know what mistake you're referencing. Btw your the top comment.
Lol I was gonna say the same 😹
1. Power required to maintain speed goes up by the cube of the speed. 2. A cube is not an exponential function.
Exactly, it’s increasing quadratically; a type of polynomial growth and not exponential growth.
X^2 is exponential. 2*x is linear.
Very good video😀
Not sure if it's been said, but at 300mph, the top of the tire is returning to the front at effectively 600mph, or about Mach .78. At 380mph, the top of the tires would be trans-sonic. One of many things to think about in engineering
Yeah, but it's also doing that inside an aerodynamic bubble.
'the top of the tire is returning to the front'... Uh, what? All of the tire is moving at the same speed. If you're talking about relative motion, like a helicopter rotor in forward flight with wind relative to direction of flight, how is that relevant to a tire?
@@2whl4re it isn't relevant.
As a former NHRA Drag Racer and lifetime ASE Master Auto Tech, I am a 67 year old know-it-all........Well......I learned PLENTY from your 6 minute video.....THANK YOU, Cars Insider ! !
Hey so I'm 17 and my mom gave me a budget of 10'000 do u know any good cars that's fast?
For $10k, I’d look at a Ford Mustang and tune the heck out of it.
Another interesting limit to consider is that set by the speed of sound. The top of the wheel will be going twice as fast as the car itself, so if the car approaches 375 mph, the rubber on the wheels would break the soundbarrier 200 times a second, generating increased drag and putting additional stresses on the wheel. Although these stresses are nothing in comparison with the centrifugal forces these wheels experience, they are still an interesting side effect to consider.
Dopler effect doesn't work like that.
I wasn't talking about the doppler effect, just the fact that the tops off the wheels are moving twice as fast as the car itself, which causes them to break the sound barrier when the car only goes half the speed of sound. This causes dragg on the wheels but primarily puts extreme stresses on them. When setting the land speed record, engineers solved this issue by designing sollid smooth aluminium wheels, which created less dragg and most importantly didn't tear themselves apart (by resisting both centrifugal forces and the breaking of the soundbarrier).
@@rutgerdobbelaere4716 sonic boom is due to dopler effect. I was referencing your first comment. Drag is obviously not the major problem for tires. They aren't directly exposed to incoming wind as F1. The major two issues are keeping the bulk modulus of tires such that they are not completely rock solid or soft enough to tear due to extreme shearing force while touching the ground. In video these guys talked about adding carbon fiber reinforcement to prevent tyre from changing shape. (Easy peasy centrifugal force.) Your premises are correct but the way you combine them to conclude your point is quite wrong.
Ok, you're right, the stresses aren't as great as I previously thought and said. I've edited my comment a little to make it closer to reality. I first learned about this effect with helicopters. Here, the tips of the rotor could potentially break the soundbarrier if it goes to fast. This is why we don't see really fast classical helicopters (speed record of only 299mph). In helicopters, this effect is much much greater, hence my overestimation.
@@rutgerdobbelaere4716 haha nice
I've done about 140 in a pick-up truck. Wrapped 120 dial around to the peg on a freshly paved road. It was fun, but don't need to do it again. Amazing how short the straightaways get, barely had time to enjoy it.
Excellent thankyou !!!
“Why it’s nearly impossible to go 300 mph” Me: cops🤦🏾♂️
if ur car can reach those speeds... you're not stopping for the police
@@NickVice true
@@NickVice works well in a video game, or a movie...but real world is quite different
@@djdc81 lol right
@@djdc81 I guess you've never run from cops. If you have a fast cars or a fast bike, know how to handle your vehicle and you're not a coward, cops will not catch you. And yes there's the radio but unless you're on a road where the exits are like 10 miles long, you'll be long gone before they mobilize to catch you.
Guy 1: I heard it's a 5 hour flight Guy 2: Yeah, and now a 5 hour drive
If the tire can withstand up to 318mph, I’d imagine it really only withstands a bit less due to external factors like wear or weather or debris
Growing up in the 70s, I admired The Blue Flame, an experimental car that set records at the time of over 600mph. I seem to remember the front of the car getting discolored from heat during its runs, though this could be my imagination.
Craig Breedlove?
The seams of our Levi’s were also discolored from Blue Flame demonstrations when I was growing up in the 80s 🤷🏼♂️
Everyone seeing the thumbnail: ah yes. That wheel turns clockwise
Underrated coment
*comment
It does turn clockwise though?
Shhh, he's american
wdym
I have mad respect for Bugatti and I remember watching the 253 mph run they did back when KZhead was basically brand new... but in my opinion, I'd say the most impressive car engineering feat is the Koenigsegg One:1. Power-to-weight ratio (along with near-perfect aerodynamics) is the holy grail for super car manufacturers.
These people forget how a Callaway Sledgehammer C4 Corvette did 254 MPH in 1989 11 years before.
Excellent, very informative, and nicely presented video... ....that does not even answer AT ALL the question posted in its title! xDD
thanks for the arrows, i didnt know which way air goes past a car or the direction wheels turn when moving
"The increase is exponential" *shows a polynomial relationship*
Umm... If you graph the relation you'll see an exponential curve... He's correct
@@howdoifindaname2743 No, the formula shown is not an exponential one.
@@bobbyv369 if you make a f v graph you will see that it's not linear but a curve
Hahaha Very interesting point Although I think a lot of the time when people say "exponential", they don't mean it literally in the mathematically precise sense- I think it's usually just meant to imply "nonlinear"
@@nothim8997 exponential doesn't mean nonlinear. If the dependent variable (in this case v) is not in the exponent (in this relation it is not), then it is not exponential. Period. End of discussion.
Can't believe the driver of Chiron was someone's grandpa.
He’s not some “grandpa”. That’s Andy Wallace. He’s a Le Mans winner. A living legend
@@Shanboss277 And I respect him as a legend. I am just saying that he is aging now. That's all.
@@erwintan001 You should have said a 'very fast' grandpa then
@@ifyoureplytomeyouregay4293 no no this is what happens when grandpa isn't given his milk and daily dose of booze
Someone needs the story about how babies are made. 😅
Fastest I've ever gone was 200kmh, but that was on a sports bike. Even at that speed the wind force is insane. Also, your vision goes into a warp speed tunnel effect on a bike at a certain speed.
I drove a 1984 Nissan 300zx at 130 mph (210 kph) and a 1989 Suzuki Katana 750 at 150 mph (240 kph).
I know next to nothing about cars and I'm not interested in them, but this video was interesting, fascinating and informative
I was wondering why my Yugo won't go the speed limit. Now I understand. The rear wing slows it down.
Dont remove it!! That rear wing is the only thing keeping you from drifting out whilst parking in Asda.
@@ukPreTzeL damn that's gotta be the funniest slander i've read about a car
Honestly this was a perfect video and more should be like this: to the point, covered everything quickly and simply, and no extra BS. Thank you.
It left a bit to be desired in a couple of areas. The graphics were good and I really liked that it pointed out the limitations of tyres. But what I particularly liked was the way they explained that drag increases with the cube of the velocity. What they left out was a decent understanding od aerodynamics. Downforce in this sphere is hard for most people to comprehend, even if they did understand the earlier parts. The most important thing here is not downforce. It's balance. If you put a wing on the back of the car, you need to balance it at the front, either with body shaping or with an underbody shape. the fact that the car only produces a small amount of downforce at its maximum speed is a fair indication that it's not a strictly critical component. It's needed but since this is about outright speed, rather than going around corners, a maximum load would not help. It would also create problems for the tyres which are already under maximum pressure.
@@dankuneasewaybill333 I thought it wasn't so much about what it means but what implications that has for high speeds.
0:53 "exponentially as a square of the speed" lmao
it’s a similar argument with volume, for example, if you have 10 speakers at max volume, you would need 100 speakers to double that volume
Bugatti: You can't ssc me 🙈😁
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Dont worry the new bugatti bulide ( idk wheather thats correct ) is gonna be even faster
SSC Tuatara is just a giant lie, just like the Devel Sixteen. Watch Shmee150's video about the Tuatara for more information
@@pastas.stabalot and every other video on it.
@@pastas.stabalot just wait until rerun
1:54 “We we’re on the verge of greatness we were this close!”
Bro XD
Nice one
VERY GOOD - THANK YOU ! ! ! 🙂😎👍
I've done 160 on my Kawasaki I could imagine these speeds. Crazy 🤯
Bill Warner went 0 to 311 mph in 1.50 miles on a turbocharged Hayabusa. Of course he'd built streamliner fairings. That's 1.52 football fields crossed in 1 second.
Man, these exotic, high performance sports cars are today are sexy as heck.
Boring
@@kingnuke168 and insane. Who needs a car that can reach such insane speeds? Give me the coice between a chiron and an EQS, and I'll go for the EQS any day of the week, and twice on Sunday. Why? The EQS is safer, cheaper to run and FAAAAR more useful.
The amount of physics related concepts and calculations involved in this is seriously mind blowing
@@andrewhaan695 - the amount of intermolecular foces, intra-molecular foces, and additional forces involved to consider is overwhelming in my opinion... I’m not a physicist so that’s prob why I’m mind blown
When the two smartest kids have a different answer:
The concepts have been well known for over a century. Since then it's only a matter of using newly-developed materials and applying brute force engineering.
Some videos make me feel smart. This is one of those videos
The Mifune Motors Mach 5 was topping 350 back in 1964!!! It was driven by it's designer's son, Go "Speed Racer" Mifune!!😁
"why it's impossible to reach 300 mph" Me: *laughs in ferrari 599XX E*
I’ve seen your kind on the highway
Forza? lol
With rally suspensions
Your top speed is 196! That’s hella fast.
Only the OGs remember when the F1 gt was the fastest
0:50 "it's all increasing exponentially as a square of the speed" ... 😂
Or...twice the speed takes four times the power. I recall reading an article about a Bonneville racer who encountered wheelspin at 300 mph on the salt. Seems that the aerodynamic drag at that speed exceeded the tires' traction ability.
@@spaceflight1019 try doing 450 at the last run of World Of Speed (2019 )one of the cars had a tire let go at 430mph .IIRC they hada calculated 7000lbs aero downforce on the rearend to fight tooth and nail for traction. There was an investigation to determine what the nature of the rooster was. Was it the tire that took out the body ,the body took out the tire, track dabrie oh, is it really doesn't matter which came first the chicken or the egg cuz after all the rooster comes before the egg that contains the chicken.
Sadly it seems people don't understand exponential functions, and despite that "exponential" sounds crazy in a way "increasing quadratically" doesn't.
@@drchrispy true, "exponentially" is often used very loosely and mathematically incorrectly. But it astounded me especially in this case as the guy seemed generally to know what he was talking about but to put exponentially and increasing quadratically directly next to each other makes no sense at all. One would think people knew better about exponential growth in the middle of a pandemic... Generally I found the relation between power, velocity and air resistance very unclear in the video as several powers of the velocity were named at different points in the video. Without air resistance, power is linear with velocity, but air resistance is quadratical in velocity, so together you get that power is proportional to velocity cubed.
What? The square of the speed is an exponential function of the speed.
Cop: Do you know how fast you were going? Bugatti Driver: A new record
I've went 145mph twice. It's quite fast things literally zoom right up to, and past you in roughly a blink of an eye. Definitely had to stay focused!
Watching this video was like "why is it hard to go fast? - Because, you know, it is really hard when you go fast"
I learned so much. Thank you for sharing. The narrator guy is such a gem. As are all of them . This is wonderful. I learned so much.
Incredible!!!
Seems to me the biggest obstacle is the height of a driver needing to be able to see the road. I assume that’s part of the “production car” regulations they have to follow, but seems to as soon as they can be watching screens instead of the road itself, they could save on a lot of resistance. But idk what I’m talking about. Good day
Is that the point for nascar drivers? I mean do they require a certain height in order to do their job?
Production car means a car that got produced in series (no one-off)
they clearly haven't seen how fast my dad left us
This is the most cursed I’ve seen this comment section.
Hahaha
Damm wtf
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Kenny Bernstein went 300mph in 1992 in a dragster. It just took a while for regular cars to catch up. After they started going 330mph a few years ago they had to shorten the 1/4 mile to 1000 feet. They could go faster but the tracks are too short.
Dodge Charger Daytona, was the first driver in NASCAR history to break the 200 mph (322 km/h) mark, on March 24, 1970, at Talladega. tested on the salt flats saw 234mph. though the tires were race units, these were the cars being sold at dealerships.
All that's needed is tiny diffusers on the exterior of the vehicle on the nano scale. That should negate the need to worry about friction resistance, break up the air before it gets to touch the surface proper, which has a hydro-oxy-phobic coat to make it that bit more slippery. No biggie then.
Driver: "It is increasing exponentially, as a square of a speed" I called math police
Also, keep in mind Where you can do this. "Oh, we'll just take it out to a track." There are no 300 MPH tracks. There aren't any 250MPH tracks, because there's only a handful of cars that are capable of those speeds. You don't have to just drive it at 300 MPH. You have to get it up to 300 miles per hour, then back down to 0, without killing anyone in the process. There's honestly not many places in the world with a straightaway long enough, and flat enough to do that. If you hit a bump, you can fly right off the track. So it also has to have no bumps large enough to send you out of control. That means maintaining the track so it doesn't develop any bumps, that kill one of the few test drivers who've ever driven a car that fast. In addition to all the exponential problems that kept us from doing it for so long in the first place.
You might as well have the car start to fly if going faster than 300mph.
@@MindlessTube right. You can feel a regular Honda start to elevate going 115mph. Idc what vehicle, it'll have that elevating scary feel like it'll flip over 100 times if wind shifts, there's a bump, or the tires start to give out 😬
@@310percentage then you got bikers owning a $50K bike going 200mph on highways like it’s nothing
All dragstrips are 300mph plus tracks.
@@alanbooker those dragstrips only allow vehicles specifically meant for massive acceleration to go that fast. They're not nearly long enough for a car that takes over a minute to reach that speed.
Absolutely LOVE this video thanks for putting in the work and time to explain💙🔥
Buggati: crosses 304mph Everyone appreciates that racer Camera mans driver: hmm hhhh 😏
People who spend decades designing , making all the stuff and with proper physics- You guys are getting appreciation??
@@KP-md3oe cheque* my friend!
Top fuel car be like "ez'
Just what I need to go grocery shopping and pickup the kids from school!
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Do you also use a shovel when eating breakfast cerials?
@@haliaeetus8221 only when I run out of clean spoons
Just what I need to get the milk. Took me 18 years last time. My son for whatever reason doesn't seem to recognise me. Next time I'm using the vroom vroom.
"fasten your fcking seatbelt timmy! I'm late to pick up your mom from work!"