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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts View Post
BOGUS! The numbers do not add up - the text is wrong in one or more places.

The corvette travelling 200 mph covers 1,056,000 feet per hour, or 293 feet per second. In a course of 1,320 feet, the vette will take 4.5 seconds to complete that 1/4 mile.



So, the world record holder will barely beat the vette by a mere .059 seconds under this circumstance.



Nope, not going to happen according to the actual numbers listed in the text. BOGUS.

-Wayne
Even with the numbers corrected it is no less spectacular.
Old 12-02-2007, 08:06 AM
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