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Priently
09-24-2014, 12:33 PM
The most people say that MotoGP is faster than F1 but when you look at the official F1 site and you will find that the fastest time at Silverstone is: 1:34.661- K Raikkonen (2012). Look at the MotoGP site and the fastest time is: 2'02.888. I'm confused, can anybody help me.

ronok
02-21-2015, 04:00 AM
F1 car is easily faster than any bike around pretty much every track you can find.
The wings that make the cars so fast around the corners slow them down in a straight line but it's the cornering speed that is so much higher that makes the difference.
If you look at the lean angle of the bikes you can get a pretty good guess as to the lateral G's they are making in the corners and it's in the low 2's. A halfway reasonable car with some wings, a little ground effect, and good slicks will easily beat that - My rattly old racer would pull 2.3 G's at high speed.