The Ultimate Test Drive - by Autocar.co.uk

[FrozenSiox]

I dont care what you wankers cry about,a f1 car is still the most unbelivable thing build on 4 wheels,nothing that is beaten yet,whenver its road-legal or not,whenever you can drive it on normal roads or in terrain or not,f1 still kills everything with speed and good acc! For the love of f1 cars!

[Ortheos2006]

0-100 in <2 seconds.

[MultiTopgearfan]

66,001st viewer...lol

[Claymore2408]

That's the V10 engine right?

[ispeaktruth100]

Like to a see a F1 car up against Bugatti during a rain storm. Maybe even a light snowfall. Better yet taking a pretty woman on a date on a hot summers days...A\C..all wheel drive and street legal. None of you keyboard heros could afford to even replace the spark plugs.

[lez1troubles]

Bugati Veyron:1001 BHP

[RomanovBuck]

True enough. I'd hate to see how wmbarassed Bugatti would be when up against an F1. That Veyron doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell against any F1 car. Still, it'd be nice to see!

[Towelman20]

Its stupid to compare a road car to race car espeiallly if ur compareing an F1 car to any road car cause F1 cars are the most unbeatble cars out there enough said its pointless to compare road cars to race cars cause most of the time you'll find that race cars are useally superior to road cars.

[mikers73]

@lez1troubles

Lateral G.  1.

F1 Lateral G. at speed. 5.

[roby70juve]

@lez1troubles

Bugatti Veiron is slower 40 second or + in same track of F1 car...

F1 car have a power ratio by 0,76 kg for horse power !!!

[redhotcp510]

@lez1troubles

If Formula! dropped all of its regulations and restrictions, F1 cars would be using 3 litre naturally aspirated v10 engines that produce 1500 + horsepower and rev up to 24,000 rpm and they weigh only about 1000 pounds (500kg~~ish).... that's up against a 4000 pound, 1000 horsepower w16 with what? 4 turbos? even as it stands, the Aero Ultimate SSC TT is a road car and has 1185 horsepower and weigh a few hundred less. Bugatti is a really nice car though, i'll give you that

[Justify1992]

i sat in fernando alonso's winning r26 and heard it accelerate past me from the pitwall, makes your head shake

[mikiowned]

honestly a person thinks that is loud sitting by thier comp wait until your in the stands of silverstone watching the r27 go past your ears blow up even the 3.5 world series cars are loud soo damm loud they are

[SChaconJr]

Hi. I take it everyone believes F1s are the shiznit? Woohoo! It sure points in that direction! Hey, include Me, I also think so. *chuckle. Wow. -I wish I had the opportunity to drive an F1! Yeah. It would probably end up atop of a tree... X( Oh well.

[porsche911TT]

I drove Micheal Schumacher's 1993 Benneton around Kyalami, South Africa a while ago and that knocked my socks off. It was detuned to about 600hp but the acceleration is mind blowing. Even on the straights it feels like you're going to lose control the way it pulls. When I left, my 996Turbo felt like a family sedan!

[TheOfficialKC]

You can't appreciate how fast it is and he drove a slow F1 car. Drive a Ferrari, McLaren, or BMW.

[jsmallwood2007]

The McLaren is as fast as an f1....saw one show he says its actualy faster .

[TheOfficialKC]

Wgat are you talking about. This was Honda Formula 1 car which isn't as fast as a McLaren, Ferrari, or BMW. If you are talking about the McLaren F1 road car it is faster top speed than a F1 race car top speed not acceleration or handling.

[jsmallwood2007]

Ya thats what i was gettin at the street mclaren is faster top speed...acceleration was suposed to be similar but the race purpose formula 1 car had greater downforce so handling obviously beter...cant remember exactly ...Guys, search it on here its a great vid

[sir62092]

Bah! It's ridiculous to compare a road car to an F1 car in ANYTHING other than top speed!

[jsmallwood2007]

acceleration as good on the maclaren f1 Road car...fuel consumption as bad 2 lol 15 min wide open full tank...only downforce where the race cars get em cornering obviously better because of it...get yours now only 1.5 mill lol

[gino800]

dude, shutp hes talking about the mclaren bmw and ferrari formula one teams, and the mclaren f1 road car doesnt have as good acceleration

[jsmallwood2007]

miniscule the difference....the road car actualy is faster on top end DUDE

[drake10987]

fucking moron, take off the wings on an F1 car and it beats the mclaren F1's top speed by AT LEAST a 100k. you're clueless.

[ExposeScams]

hypothetical situations now is it idiot lol...ok then a 10 mile straight stretch the bugati veron or maclarin f1 wins lol...I simply stated the facts the top speeds are higher and they accelerate similar...feal free to Blow me at any time there kid...closest thing you can legaly drive on the highway there moron ,never did I say they beat the race car...go check into it before you run your mouth anymore

[jsmallwood2007]

Fastest Car in the World

watch it lol

[wellshii]

lol.yeah take the wings off and you become airborne.probaly at 180.

[drake10987]

that was a figure of speech you failure of a smartass. F1s have so much downforce/drag that just lifting the throttle at high speeds pulls 1g......

[RomanovBuck]

Yyyyyyep. drive an F1 car with no wings on it and you'll find yourself in low orbit

[wellshii]

yeah that is true

[wellshii]

heres a figure of speech for you........GO FUCK YOURSLEF U STUPID SACK OF IGNORANT FUCKING SHIT!!!

[corotor12345]

hell drake are you a fagg? are you a dickhead? dont you know simple physics rules? think before you fukin run your mouth at youtube, we guys here know what we are talkin about, f1 cars are about GRIP, n ACCELERATION, not TOP SPEED. without the wings the car actually FLIES MORRON. n bugatti veyron or mclaren f1 wont beat an f1 car simply because they wont catch up on the lost time at the start... idk how much from0 to 60, but f1 cars have HUGE power to wight RATIO... a lil GLOSARY so you LEARN.

[corotor12345]

hey drake i know this is a bit late for a response but i was brought up in england so you can go fuck a limestone.... two... who ever said an f1 car weighs a ton? like metric? lol you keep playing dumbass, an F1 is just about 600 kg including fuel, oil and driver... ;) try thinking mate, its good for ya

[drake10987]

"who ever said an f1 car weighs a ton? like metric? lol you keep playing dumbass, an F1 is just about 600 kg including fuel, oil and driver"

lol why the fuck are you telling me this...

1. i know that

2. it makes absolutely no sense in this discussion.

[drake10987]

try reading mate, i was quoting someone else.

good job.

[silviadark]

renault claims that r26 does 1,7 sec from 0-60 mph on a perfect launch, and less than 7 secs to hit 180.

[crv26]

first class

[nose700]

@sir62092 What about a capero T1?

[D3ffe]

If you change gearbox ratio you can go faster in a real F1 car then a McLaren F1 streetcar, but they don´t want to or need more topspeed on the circuit they compete on. They want just very very fast acceleration from 0~320km/h.............!!

[jsmallwood2007]

Im still sticking to my comment the road care is very close in acceleration lol....that engine is so race ready you need 30 000 overhauls every 5000 km...the race f1 is all carbon fiber of course its faster acelerating but you would be suprised how savage the road cars are.......watch the 0-100 mph road car acceleration vids on here lol or the spedo shot vids from 0 - 200 mph

[drake10987]

lol smallwood your ignorance continues to amaze me :). 1. ~3s VS 6.3s for 0-100mph is close!?? 2. more like 1 overhaul every 1000km 3. the mclaren F1 is all carbon fiber as well (though still heavier); they even went as far as lining the engine cover with freaking gold... so they used as much carbon as they could. "no compromise" was that car's motto. give me 2 million to buy any road car and i'd jump all over the mclaren F1, but its still nowhere near a real F1 car in terms of performance.

[jsmallwood2007]

Im getting the bugati when i win the lotto

[odmcarp]

get me one to will ya?

[wbceditor]

Just saw Button's V10 F1 car run a 9.0-second quarter mile time on a top gear vid against and bike and a boat. Do you think the McLaren F1 can beat 9 secs? Doubt the power-to-weight ratio is there for it. Then there's the cornering . . . McLaren F1 is a turd compared to a real F1 car.

[drake10987]

uh agreed... i think you replied to the wrong guy.

i'm gonna make it simple for morons like exposescams:

mclaren F1: 550 bhp/ton

bugatti veyron: 530 bhp/ton

formula 1 car (V8): ~1400 bhp/ton...

now open-wheel cars are not as aerodynamic as road cars, but given a relatively low downforce setup on the formula 1 car theres no fucking way that compensates for the massive difference in power to weight ratio.

[RomanovBuck]

Actually the F1 is probably the car world's best chance against the F1 racing vehicles. True, it'd still get spanked, but it'd get a lot less spanked than, say, a Veyron or Enzo.

[NJpetrolhead]

I have this video in my iPod,and trust me it is amazing

[heyrodders]

why did the F1 Honda have a green light on the back instead of a red one /??/

[michaelcort83]

because its the test car to tell other drivers on track that this car is not as competitive

[heyrodders]

nice one cheers for that michael... & happy easter ;-)

[michaelcort83]

you to and are you watching the f1

[Huw444444444]

Hamilton COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tommy9927]

to be precise it's the indication that the car is driven by someone who does not hold a F1 licence - which means that in test sessions the full time race and test drivers (who usually hold the licence as well to replace injured drivers) have still red lights whereas everybody else has to use the green one - even 4 time Champcar champion Sebastien Bourdais had a green light during his testing at Spa last July

[michaelcort83]

yea that aswell

[oli3165]

why not the MP4-23?, vodafone mclaren mercedes f1 car

[Janaida]

I GOT THE DVD today and just watched it

its really really good ,very good quality and editing too.Buttons in it and he races the CIVIC type R Around silverstone .i feel they could have shown more of this though

he might look like a piezer but Sutcliffe is a very good driver maybe even autocar number joke .

[Janaida]

they have an extra on the dvd too loking at the new RA108 button took it to p 11 today

i cant wait for Qualifying

Autocar please make more of these dvd's as you get the access all you have to do is film it .and im sure your sales are up atleaset 100%

5 starts

[94070]

The RA107? God, why?

[Shazee083]

????

[jamesdadrumma]

Lucky bastard.

[topski100]

what a shit job!;)

[Shazee083]

u are an idoit

[topski100]

so irony is lost on you then?

[ben6206]

ye... id rather be a bin man.... ;)

[mca2k]

thought this was going to be a maestro turbo...

[TGseason10]

I'm not such a big fan of F1 cars but this seems pretty sweet.