The dude over at engineering explained goes in to depth on the recording setting car. One thing that puzzles me about record setting electric cars he does not explain. In general a gas car needs 1000 horsepower to hit 200 mph but an electric car needs 2000 horsepower. The only thing I can think of is the power is not being delivered to the wheels due to a lack of gearing. I’m also surprised he did not calculate the terminal velocity of the car. A car approaches the terminal velocity according to the hyperbolic tangent. What you need is data on speed at time toward the end of the run. I might tackle the problem if I had the data. The problem is the spastic photographers who make these videos keep cutting back and forth between the speedometer the view out the window and the drone shots. Also I would like to have a curve fitting program to save a lot of work. Clearly the car was still accelerating at 300 mph. A lot of people have died when their tires exploded so I don’t blame the driver for backing off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6q7du1q2U8
I think the numbers needed to hit 200mph is off. The ferrari f40 did it with less than 500hp almost 40 years ago
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Given a very long launch road, like the salt flats, surely a low torque high speed engine, with an assisting start motor, as well as very streamlined aerodynamics could hit 200mph using less than 500hp…theoretically, anyway. Also hypothetically, is microturbulence actually beneficial for aerodynamics?