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Originally Posted by Welshy40
Top end the Bugatti Veyron. Maclaren F1 road car both can easily do 241, so how many times has an F1 car hit that speed in the last ten years, mmm doubt even once. When Senna and Mansell and Prost raced they were hitting over 200 regularly, now its slower and more boring.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2006/07/21/h...at-bonneville/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel
"with the fastest cars reaching the end of the 1/4 mile in less than 4.5 seconds at speeds up to 337 mph (530 km/h). "
So to sum up none of the current road cars are really even remotely exceptional in straight line or laptime when compared to race cars.
As for suggesting the teams would be better off doing GT racing, on the face of it GT racing may look better because every car looks different, thats only because the design process is much less optimised. If F1 teams got involved they's all get much closer to the optimum, in fact I'd argue that the current F1 rules force engineers to be creative, whereas the GT rules make it a bit easier.