McMurtry Speirling blitzes the (metric) quarter-mile in 7.97 seconds
There's a few hundredths worth of gray area in the comparison for now. The Nevera is a production car, the Speirling most definitely is not.a road-legal production version that's likely a couple of years away. Watson set his Speirling times with the fan car's custom slick tires, the rear pushers being 240-section.
The Speirling's waiting to spring a big surprise, though, since its Goodwood gearing limits top speed to 150 mph. Watson said the Speirling sat at 150 mph for"approximately three seconds" of that blazing quarter-mile time. Fyi, the English quarter-mile is 400 meters, or 1,312.3 feet compared to our 1,320-foot quarter-mile. At 150 mph, it would take the Speirling about another 0.04 second to do the U.S.A. drag.
Before the runs, Watson gets instruction in the Speirling's methods from chief engineer Kevin Ukoko-Rongione and company test driver Max Chilton. For instance, two fans provide the roughly 4,400 pounds of downforce, but it's a redundant system; Ukoko-Rongione said that although both fans runs together, a single fan can provide most of the car's downforce. It's worth watching the buildup because this is a fascinating car.
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