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Originally Posted by Roobi
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- while your pretty much right in saying "but hitting a tree at 100 or 130 kmh is likely to be fatal either way" its more of the control of the vehicle. ....
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I'm not too sure about that one - your kinetic energy increases with the square of your velocity - so that 30kmph increase represents a 69% increase in energy you need to absorb, hopefully not with your skull. Your crumple zones can only absorb so much. Once they are exhausted, you start to crumple.
Be honest guys - going fast makes you feel cool, like Peter Brock etc - who knows?? Remember Mr Brock was a good driver, and how was he killed?
The roads are where the rest of us are taking our kids to swimming lessons etc.
Find another damned race-track.