The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Spiny Norman said:

A good video on Top Fuel drag cars.
The acceleration is stunning.
0 – 100 km/h in just over half a second.
0 – 200 km/h in just under two seconds.
0 – 500 km/h in about 3.5 seconds.

https://youtu.be/x8AQK4rXTuA?si=kEcuB2_05NktAmXq

So that’s about 5g acceleration for the first half sec.

How do they transmit the required force to the ground without slipping?

So why not watch the video?

Yeah, could do that I suppose, but what? 20 minutes?

No-one got time for that.

But the transcript covers it from about 11 minutes.

I remember back at the old place we had a thread about whether you could drive up a vertical surface, relying purely on aerodynamic effects to hold you “down”.