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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
GT Academy Winner Lucas Ordonez to Race Will Smith's Electric Powerboat in E1 Series
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Those boats be looking like some Star Wars pod-racer-type of thing. Really cool concept and may come back to see how it's going at a later date!
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This sounds like an April Fool's joke.
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The boats might look cool...
...but they literally only reach around 30mph...
...even slower than Tour De France...
Probably the slowest MOTORsport of all time?
...but they literally only reach around 30mph...
...even slower than Tour De France...
Probably the slowest MOTORsport of all time?
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AAaaannnddd....
You can't watch it in the US....
You can't watch it in the US....
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Or pretty much twice as fast as you originally said, but hey.
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Water is 10 times more dense than air.
The water LSR is UNDER 300 mph.
And that is AFTER the last 10 people died attempting it. (or was it 7 out of 10....)
The water LSR is UNDER 300 mph.
And that is AFTER the last 10 people died attempting it. (or was it 7 out of 10....)
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More like a thousand times, roughly speaking.
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That depends on the speed.
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No it doesn't.
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They've all got to start somewhere.
Perhaps you just have to realise that not every motorsport is the pinnacle of speed, and that maybe this isn't for you, and move on.
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Using your same logic, in 1903, not many other Motorspprts were all that much quicker at the time.
And on top of that, Unlimited Hydroplane racing in 1903 had no equivilent or anything even mildly similar at the time. And even if there were, speeds were likely within a similar range.
Now it's over 120 years later in 2024, there are now many established high speed offshore racing series many of which share similarities and equivilents.
E1 Electric Powerboats are still slow in comparison, and most if not all motorsports are WAY faster even on water.
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Just FYI, there's no such thing as the general speed limit in the US. While 55 is used quite widely, it's not like the typical 50/90/130 km/h in Europe, those set speed limits are non-existent over here.
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Hitting a wall of water at a couple of miles an hour is fun. Like when we jump in a lake.
Hitting a wall of water as a super-sonic bullet will destroy the bullet.
Yes, it's all physics, but speed matters.
That's all I'm saying.
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It's not the density that's relevant here, and even if it was, intuitively you're suggesting at high collision speed it'd be MORE dense... given it's roughly a 1000 times at rest it's not going to fall to only 10 times in the event of a collision.
Yes, it's all physics, but what you're talking about is the effect of viscosity, which has a time dimension, therefore is relevant to speed (more specifically deceleration during an impact creating a bigger force).
That's all I'm saying.
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