Leawood911:
Whoopsy:

Leawood, you are actually refuting one of the most respected and unbiased channel on YouTube simply because he is saying something that you don't want to hear.

He owns a Model 3 btw, so he do have first hand knowledge of Teslas and not a Tesla basher. 

He is basing his conclusion on numbers and physics, and physics is the law that governs everything in life btw, not even Elon can violate the principles of physics. 

Using braking numbers to calculate tire grip is very valid, and once you have the tire grip number you can do the other side of the equation and calculate how much power a car can put down for acceleration before breaking traction. All modern high power cars are limited by tire traction btw, given better tire grip all can have much better acceleration numbers, which is why that Book dude insists on doing his videos on prep-ed drag strips with much better than street road grip and also grippier drag racing tires for extra launch grips. Cars Brook tested will also have much better than normal braking distance simply because there is a much higher tire traction with drag racing tire on prep-ed surfaces if he test braking distances on the drag strip itself. 

0-60 simply means a car gets to 60mph from rest. Not after rolling for 1 ft first. GPS timings are sensitive enough to time the event. Drag strip style 0-60 with the 1 ft roll out to break timing beams is out dated and gives better number than cars can actually do. But it's the way most Americans are used to seeing so it's another number that gets published. 

On theory, a car will need to sustain approximately 1.4g in order to achieve sub-2 second 0-60mph. We are 'almost' there on tire tech. Cars running Cup R can do ~1.3g braking right now. 

And once tire tech is there, not just a Plaid, but a whole list of cars can do sub 2, one of which will be the 918, the current champ for 0-60. 991 turbo S, 992 turbo S will both have a shot also. 

 

 

Wrong on all counts. He never tested a plaid and pretended in the thumbnail and title he had. He is guilty of the same false advertising he thinks is so wrong. Period. The rest is his old repeat standard lecture about something he is flat wrong about. Sorry. Plenty of cars are already faster.  Just wait until the real testing comes along.  Of course he won’t care he already banked his views. 
And you really don’t know what I want to hear or not. My calling bullshit on his ‘report’ for clicks stands on its own. 

 

Everyone here knows what you like and not like to hear bud. Smiley

If you didn't think tire traction is the limiting factor, why do you think Brook bolt on some sticky rubber on his 720S and do his runs on a prep-ed drag strip to showcase improved drag times over factory numbers? Why don't he just keep his factory rubber and do his runs on regular surface instead?

 


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