Let's take an average sports car, 0-100kph in 5 seconds, that's 36 meters per second or 100 meters in about 3 seconds. If you ignore the distance covered while getting to 100kph and ignore that it's still accelerating after getting to 100kph it will do 100 meters in 8 seconds.
Take a mad car? Lots quicker.
Do the real maths and consider both ignored improvements? Lots quicker.
Assuming constant acceleration (7m/s? for 35m/s in 5s) it'll cover 100m in 5.3 seconds... if you take a Veyron (2.5s for 100kph, 14m/s?) you'll do 100m in 3.7s.
Again assuming constant acceleration and breaking as well as zero delays, a Veyron could floor it for 25m, brake for 25m, stop, do the same thing again, and still be 2 seconds faster than Mr Bolt.
And I hate to be negative after a spectacle like that (the fastest 100m race ever 3 guys under 9,84). But I just simly cannot believe that these times can be achieved "cleanly"... So many guys who have gone under 9,9 have been caught.
Well, not even proper power is needed. To do 100m in 9.5s from a standing start with constant acceleration all you need is 2.2m/s?, which works out to over 16s for 0-100kph.
Even my lowly Fox can do that...
Oh yeah, just thought about reality ... real cars should actually do better, because they perform better than the assumed constant acceleration - at first (in first ) they accelerate better, so using the average as a constant actually slows them down a bit overall..
A little OT, but how come people that actually advance the human race by discovering new technologies / medicine and so on, and generally inventing things that make our lives more pleasant usually get so little credit for it while someone who can just run really fast seems to get so many people excited? I understand that people need to be entertained, sometimes it just seems a little out of proportion
You may be confusing momentary speed when crossing the line with the average speed... on average he did 37.58, considering it takes them about half the race to get up to their top speed I'd guess his momentary speed - though lower than top speed - should be considerably higher than the average.
I DRIVE THE NEW CHEVROLET CAMARO, IN A STRAIGHT LINE.
JAMES MAY AND RICHARD HAMMOND INVESTIGATE, IS IT BETTER TO OWN A G-WIZ OR BE KICKED IN THE VEGETABLES REPEATEDLY?
AND
IS USAIN BOLT QUICKER THAN A REASONABLY PRICED CAR?