Thats interesting, what runway is that then local to Cambridge?

I thought that Elvington at 1.9m and Bruntingthorpe at 2.0 miles were the longest runways in the UK (apart from perhaps Heathrow and Gatwick )
As I mentioned above, that gives around 1.4 - 1.5 miles to do the run up, depending on how brave/mad you are!
Believe me when I say it needs at least 1/2mile to stop from 200+mph as you cant just 'hit' the brakes !

Andy

 

There are a huge number of airfields in east anglia.

Marham, Honington, Woodbridge etc etc Honington is about the same as bruntingthorpe (at around 3km) but also has the benefit of a nice sweeping right hander onto the runway that can be taken at around 80. (if not more)

Is it a stupid question to consider tyre speed ratings at these speeds?

Its either that or the bowl at Millbrook

 

Let us know what you get out of it duncan, i reckon you will pi** 300 mph just cos its a hawkeye LOL.

 

Quite a bit shorter I believe at approx 1.7 miles total length. There is a listing available of ALL military and commercial airfields past and present.
Bruntingthorpe also has a fast bend on approach but I only got 199mph there as the 1st half is uphill ! That was on plain Optimax way back then though.

 

Fair enough. Adrian Smith got 206 there last year in the celica. Guess I need more power

 

More power or more distance !
On my 210MPH run at Elvington a few weeks later (on race fuel this time) the datalog showed I was still gaining 1mph every 3 seconds at 1.4 miles, extrapolated it looked like it had enough power to max out at approx 222MPH at just over 2.5 miles........or, more likely, take off and/or explode spectacularly

 

Lol

 

125 in a 52 plate wrx bug-eye with ppp on a private road and many unused revs. would have easily gone past 140, maybe even 150.... but i had new underwear on at the time and didn't want an "accident"
;-)

 

210 mph must be an awsome buz i cant imagine what that must feel like, bet it feels faster in an impreza than it would in a gugatti veyron at the same speed mate.

 

Millbrook is a 2mile circlular loop, and 'hands off speed' is 105mph on the outer lane, so by 200mph you'd be cornering quite quickly, and want to be careful coming back down through the speed range.

Dave

 

whats wrong with the a1 lol
try doing 145 in a banger of a rover gti vibrating like u were breaking through the atmosphere and the temp gauge acting more like an adrenaline gauge of sheer fear lol i imagined the posibility of YE OLD STEEL WHEEL cuming off and rolling ahead lol

 

the pentland hills in edinburgh on the way to sanquhar from edinburgh theres about a 3mile stretch of road ( very thin lanes but smooth road nonetheless ) and most of its downhill makes for an exiting time lol the roads has its few dips so is a bit of a laugh , worst case scenario may be executing a few sheep if u come off the road though lol

 

u can see very very far ahead so even overtaking is great as u have no worries as u can see like 2 miles ahead with it being all downhill

 

You should try 195 on a motorbike

 

I did 130 on my mates ninja and i was sh1tting myself

 

crashed into the swingpark fence when i was 18 staying with my mum lol
it was pitch black doing about 65-70 on a yzf 250 snapped the top of my leg and shattered my knee cap , even getting in and out of the scoob now is a pain especially in the winter as i cant bend my right leg more than 90* BUT ALL AN IMPREZA NEEDS IS A TWIST OF THE ANKLE AND AWWWAAAYYY WE GOOOOOO LOL my sons daft over cars but hes only 5 , had him helping me trying to push a driveshaft into the hub 1nce last year was pretty funny and he enjoyed it , a little andy f in the making lol

 

no bikes for him lol

 

the wife reckons i left a few brain cells in that park when i crashed , i tell her i have enough brain cells to know the important things , u can only ponder what i mean lol

 

152 sti hawk, in EU somewhere!!!!!!!!!
still had more to go,
156 in my old Ford mondeo ST200
158 many years ago in a fully weighted up Volvo T5 estate,

 

I've been a pillion on a mate of a mate's Kwakker ZX9R.....

I've never been so scared/adrenalised in my life! The bloke was a great rider..... but utterly insane! One notable 'highlight' on that mental Sunday ride was that he power wheelied for ages - without foreforwarning me I might add - in between the 2 lanes of cars on a dual carriageway. All I could see was front wheel and sky....

Sorry for going off topic there.

 

Interesting fact of the day......

The latest 6sp manual Legacy 3.0 is geared for 284mph at 8000 rpm on 26" tyres

The latest 6sp manual Legacy 3.0 has sufficient power to get to approx 4000rpm

 

lol, it was the first and only time id been on a road bike on my own, never again.A few of my mates have bikes and ive been on the back of them all. Most bikers are insane

 

26" tyres -

I'm sure it'll rev higher than 4k in top gear, once you've OS'd....Ooops i meant Ecut*k'd it!

 

Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur i.e. Gangsta legacies. <groan>

 

100 mph I need my license Otherwise no job no house and slowly but gradualy no mrs as there will be no money lol

 

125 about an hour after i got it! was cruising back up from down south after buying it and had stopped at a services. coming back onto the motorway i floored it and was up there in what seemed like no time at all, had only just changed into 5th! was a buzz but i've (kinda) stuck to 95 or less since. need my license to get to work......

 

Excellent, I was needing a new gearset as my shimano set on the Kona is getting a bit worn

 

171 on the gps, you gotta love the autobahn

 

I have - Nitrous Oxide injected GSXR1100... Very, very scary, and never again. 250bhp on 200kg is quite enough...

Dave