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iBoaterer[_3_]

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On 6/10/13 8:40 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
In article ,
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With someone more skilled than I am driving it, my motorcycle will blow
the doors off that Ford truck in 0-60 and in the quarter mile and again,
with the right driver, leave that 911 Turbo you had behind, too.

But...not me with driving.

Only in a straight line. A car has more grip in the corners, and has the advantage on the track. You have to turn sooner or later.

Wait, are you saying that a car will out corner a motorcycle? Not true,
the reason being, you are right in thinking because of the amount of
tire contact a car has does give it a greater friction coefficient, you
also have mass to deal with, and simply physics will tell you that a
given mass wants to stay in a straight line, and that mass is MUCH
greater with a car. It's a centrifugal force thing! So, all in all, they
are closer to equal than anything. Motorcycle has less contact patch,
but also less mass.

It depends on the track and the vehicles.

On a relatively simply track, like, for example, Daytona, certain
Italian motorcycles will blow the doors off your Ferraris, Porsches, and
Corvettes with similar top speeds because they will out-accelerate these
four wheeled vehicles, and braking isn't as severe as it would be on a
more difficult track with lots of complex, tight turns. On the more
severe tracks, the motorcycles cannot go as deep and as fast into the
tight turns as the cars, which have better brakes, so the cars can play
catchup. The bikes may still finish faster, but only because of their
acceleration abilities. This has been demonstrated many times with top
drivers in each category. It's the brakes.

Physical science doesn't change because of opinion.