Theoretical Model

[W&K Creations]

For those science/physics buffs or people that like this type of stuff (TxChemist always has nice scientific analyses), can one calculate, based on the current track physicial statistics that John uses to run the races (length, slope, height etc), and the weight and size and COM of the cars, what the expected time from start to finish would be, ASSUMING, no friction in the CAR itself (frictionless wheels, axels)....

Just for fun that is LOL....

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[txchemist]

I am just about to redo the entire deal for all cars and will toss in a zero friction car following that path.

the problem is that if you take the unlimited to zero friction on the wheel on last months run, you get a drop of 0.0001 sec, and the unlimited this month ran 0.0067 faster
so a simple answer is, whatever Goat runs is 0.0001 sec slower than zero axle friction.
Air friction slows you up 0.0164 sec compared to running in a vacuum on an unlimited car.

So you can see from how the cum dist. on unlimited doglegs down from the 50% line that about 50% of the racers are at the wall and will not get faster than Goat without something magical.