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Description: At 207mph, the Guinness World Record for the Nevada Open Road Challenge had stood since 2000, but on 20 May 2012 these records were demolished by Jim Peruto and his modified NASCAR 2006 Dodge Charger,...
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Shane I doubt it really. Our cars are not designed for this "flat" out style of punishment.
Agree I don't think it should count with a NASCAR looking car it should be like a daily driver car like Nissan GTR or something
I think he was a little over the speed limit. Lol that was a beautiful sound tho. Cudos to the driver u got to have balls to pull speeds like that on open road.
Plus this is more of a challenge of balls rather than power. If you took a Hennessey Venom or Pagani Huayra or Koenigsegg... well... anything, they could achieve the same feat. Even your modified Vette's, Mustang's, Viper's, Supra's ect... could accomplish this with the right driver.
Can't really call it a Dodge, it's a NASCAR with Dodge emblems. The closest thing that resembles it to a Dodge is the fact it most likely has a MOPAR crate engine.
You back that thing into a cow and you'll have instant beef cuts ready for the freezer.
Paul: the answer is that one car sustained a higher average, for the duration of the race. An AVERAGE is all-inclusive. It doesn't matter peaks or valleys, it matters sustained time. The charger had the highest mean time for the duration.
Time but wouldn't win the race because the sustained speed was lower. Miles per hour obviously are time. I understand what your saying.
Sure can't change physics. But explain to me the clock part of this. The guy hit a max speed of over 240 but had a sustained speed of 217 setting the record. Another car could hit 300 several times but only sustain 215. Would cross the line first in
Henz, it's a race against the clock right? So is rallying. "no, it's about top speed!" avg speed is distance/time. Physics is physics. You can't change it. Time is the #1 factor.
I thought the point of the so called race was to sustain a high speed over 90miles. Speed being the only point more than a clock. A lot of things have to go in to that than just power.
Just to clear this up. How many street legal cars do you think compete? 0. Your racing across 90 miles of desert at 200+ mph. You couldnt do it in a stock car. There is a 69' camaro that does this. Big red. Look it up.
I know that Carlton. It's still a race. Rally racing is against the click too.
Some history: John Hennessy of Hennessy Performance raced the Silver State Race in the early 90's in a modified Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4 averaging 169 MPH.
Yeah, I would much rather use a street legal car I could drive home in afterwords.
@ Jack. You do realise it's only a race against the clock, not door-to-door racing? IMO a street race should only be for street legal cars. All other non-street legal vehicles should stay on drag strips & race tracks. Just my two penneth, that's all.
You do realize its a race right? Your allowed to use race cars. People are stupid sometimes.
I agree.. Whats the point? Im not knocking it but at least use a street legal fully functional car, not a stripped down nascar charger..
It's all well and good averaging 217mph and hitting 244mph, but this is a NASCAR, not a street legal road car. So it shouldn't really count. May as well turn up in a dragster or an Indycar because they're both even faster.
How could anybody say this is good looking it's the same shape as every other NASCAR but it has different stickers.
Is it just an illusion that it looks like the tires arent touching the pavement? Cuz it really looks like they aren't...
The car looks nice, but almost no resemblance with the charger we have today other than the grill
Yea not that hard to figure out kids
I think he means a phone number jingle. Like 1-800-get-a-dodge. Maybe?
I can't understand it either. Not a big deal kid
@thomas I can't understand what you just said
All I can say Is 1800 get a Dodge