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Originally Posted by MTBikerTim
The problem is how do you survive an acident at those sorts of speeds. There will always be accidents and the forces at those speeds even with a glancing blow to the wall are enough to rip the car to peices. Say you loose only a third of your speed in a glancing hit on the wall, that's still 100mph when you are doing 300mph. Even with perfect safety features you are still loosing 100mph in an instant.
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I don't know if you get to see the NASCAR racing down under
, but that is why these kinds of racing machines are so important to the automobile industry
. They are trying a lot of new things and breaking ground on new safety inovations that are being put into the every day automobiles that we drive
. They have been calling it the car of tomorrow because the changes were brought into the sport gradually over the last 24 months, but now it is in full swing for the 2008 season
. These cars are built to take those kinds of speeds in an accident, and even help prevent major issues from becomming a huge catastrophy.
So do we want to see 230 mph, of course we do. That is just the nature of racing.
