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Originally Posted by astonmartinandy
Yeh Clarkie was approved as one of the few "European" customers. Doesn't it seem a bit pathetic that the original GT40 achieved a speed just 4mp/h less on the Mulsanne straight nearly 40 years ago?
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You forget, the Nardo High-Speed track is a perfectly circular autodrome...i.e. a long, circular test track...This means that the car won't be able to achieve it's maximum straight-line velocity because in effect it is cornering as it laps. The top lane at Nardo has a hands off limit of 125mph or so if I recall correctly from the bit that Tiff did with the Bentley Continental GT, so you can imagine that it must be something of a corner at 205. At any rate, the fact that the car hit 205 on a banked circular ciruit would tend to mean that it has a true, straight-line top speed of nearer to 215mph or even 220, given the right circumstances.
Is that Enzo really worth it?
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