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By John Farndon Illustrated by Mat Edwards & Jeremy Pyke MEGAFAST CARS BY JOHN FARNDON ILLUSTRATED BY MAT EDWARDS & JEREMY PYKE THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK MEGAFAST CARS Thanks to the creative team: Senior Editor: Alice Peebles Designer: Lauren Woods and collaborate agency Original edition copyright 2015 by Hungry Tomato Ltd. Copyright © 2016 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Hungry Tomato™ is a trademark of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. Hungry Tomato™ A division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 241 First Avenue North Minneapolis, MN 55401 USA For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com. Main body text set in Economica Bold. Typeface provided by Tipotype. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Farndon, John, author. | Edwards, Mat, 1966- illustrator. | Pyke, Jeremy, illustrator. Title: Megafast cars / by John Farndon ; illustrated by Mat Edwards and Jeremy Pyke. Description: Minneapolis : Hungry Tomato, [2016] | Series: Megafast | “Each spread of this high-energy book profiles a different car and delves into records it has broken, races it has won, and other amazing feats related to its speed”—Provided by publisher. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Audience: 8-12. | Audience: 4-6. Identifiers: LCCN 2015031652| ISBN 9781467793636 (lb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781467795814 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781467795821 (eb pdf : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Sports cars—Juvenile literature. | Automobiles, Racing—Juvenile literature. Classification: LCC TL236 .F36 2016 | DDC 629.222—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015031652 Manufactured in the United States of America 1 – VP – 12/31/15 MEGAFAST CARS by John Farndon Illustrated by Mat Edwards and Jeremy Pyke CONTENTS Megafast Cars 6 That Was How Fast?! 8 Bugatti’s Grand Master 10 Bugatti Veyron Viking Thunder 12 Koenigsegg Agera R Fast as a Snake 14 Hennessey F5 Venom Stripped for Speed 16 McLaren F1 The Ultimate in Speed 18 SSC Ultimate Aero Fighting Fast 20 Lamborghini Aventador Formula for Speed 22 Formula One Racing Jet-Propelled 24 Jet-Powered Cars The Wheel Thing 26 Speed Demon, Bluebird CN7, and Buckeye Bullet Flaming Takeoff 28 Top Fuel Drag Racing and Funny Cars Want to Know More? 30 Index and Glossary 32 MEGAFAST CARS In this book, we feature a selection of the world’s fastest cars. And they are fast—really, really fast. It’s not just their frighteningly high top speeds, but also their astonishing acceleration. When a Lamborghini Aventador takes off at full throttle, the air crackles with a mighty roar and the driver is fl ung back in the seat with breathtaking force as the car gains speed in seconds. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, it will be over a quarter of a mile away! And now it’s half a mile away... 6 Sensational Schumacher Some say the greatest racing driver of all time was the Argentinian Juan Fangio, who raced in the 1950s when Grand Prix racing was brutally dangerous. Others say it was the Brazilian Ayrton Senna, who won 41 races before being tragically killed at the Imola racetrack in 1994, at the age of just 34. But many think it is the German Michael Schumacher, who scored 91 wins between 1991 and 2012. Road Speeds On motorways in the UK and many highways in the USA, cars are allowed to travel at no more than 70 mph. For most people that’s quite fast enough! But all the cars featured in this book can go way faster than that. That means they can only reach their top speeds on private roads and racetracks. If a Hennessey Venom could keep up its top speed of 270 mph all the way, it could drive from New York to Los Angeles in less than ten hours! 7 THAT WAS HOW FAST?! It is easy to see when a plane or a motorcycle, a car or a truck is megafast. But how do you know just how fast it is? Speed is the distance that something moves in a certain time. It is the distance covered divided by the time. If a jet plane travels 2,000 miles in two hours, it travels 1,000 miles in each hour. So we say its speed is 1,000 miles per hour, or mph. The top speeds for the machines in this book are given in mph. Speed Matters Speeds for vehicles on the ground are typically given in mph (miles per hour) or km/h (kilometers per hour). Rockets may shoot away from Earth at over 11 km per second. If a plane fl ies faster than sound, its speed may be compared to the speed of sound in similar conditions. This speed is called a Mach number. So a plane fl ying at the speed of sound (typically over 700 mph) is said to be fl ying at Mach 1. 8 Getting Quicker One way of seeing how fast something moves is to measure how quickly it gains speed—that is, its acceleration. You can actually measure how much something accelerates every second. But with fast vehicles, the acceleration is usually given by how long it takes to reach a particular speed, typically from a standing start, 0 mph. The shorter the time, the faster the acceleration. So acceleration fi gures for a superbike that takes just 2.9 seconds to get from a standstill to 60 mph would be 0–60 in 2.9 seconds. That’s megafast! Against the Clock The most accurate way of measuring top speed is to measure how long a vehicle takes to cover an exact distance, such as a mile. That’s how the offi cial top speeds in this book were measured. To ensure split- second accuracy, the clock is triggered to start and stop when the vehicle cuts through a beam of light. Speed Dial Speed against the clock is average speed. Police speed guns and speedometers in cars, trucks, and motorcycles register the speed at any one instant. Speed guns fi re a radar beam and detect the way it bounces off a moving vehicle. With speedometers, an electronic sensor counts the number of times small magnets on the wheel sweep past it each second and converts that into a speed in mph to display on the dashboard or LCD screen inside the car. 9 FLAMING TAKEOFF Top Fuel drag racing is all about blistering acceleration. Using nitromethane-fu eled engines, cars are powered to incredible speeds of 330 mph from a standing start in the blink of an eye. They cover the measured 1,000 feet of track in just 3.7 seconds! Nitromethane, which is used to fu el rockets, burns slower than gasoline, so the exhausts shoot out fl ames of burning fu el, adding to the drama. Don’t Move! The most famous Top Fuel dragster is Tony Schumacher’s US Army, painted in the colors of the US Army. It is the fastest-accelerating machine on land, accelerating fi ve times as fast as gravity. Its 8,000-hp engine can rip it up to over 330 mph in just 1,000 feet. Funny Cars If you want to see ordinary cars transform into monstrously speedy dragsters, then look for Funny Car events. Funny cars have hugely tilted carbon-fi ber bodies that look like ordinary cars. But they are mounted on specially built chassis and equipped with megapowerful engines. The most successful funny car driver is John Force, who now drives cars that look like Chevrolets. Top Speed 50 100 200 28 Power 8,000 bhp 0–330 mph 3.736 seconds Top Speed 330.23 mph Engine Bore and stroke: 4.187 x 4.500 Torque Unknown $ Price $10,199 300 400 500 330.23 mph 29 Want to Know More? Bugatti Veyron This car uses special Michelin PAX tires that are twice as wide as the tires on a normal car. If one ever gets punctured, it can be run fl at until you get to a garage to get it repaired. But if you ever need a new set, you have to order it from Michelin in France at a cost of well over $40,000. Koenigsegg Agera With the One:1 version of the famous Agera, Koenigsegg’s aim was to create a track racing car that could also be used on the street. With one horsepower for every kilogram of weight, the One:1 had a blistering pace that could reach 273 mph. But only six were ever built. Two sold in Britain and four in China. Lamborghini When the German car tuners Mansory got their hands on a Lamborghini Aventador, they created the Carbonado. They replaced all the body panels with ultralight carbon fi ber and added twin turbochargers to boost power to 1,600 hp. Not everyone likes the result, but it is superfast, with a top speed of 230 mph. 30 Bonneville Salt Flats The most famous place in the world for land speed record attempts is Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA. The Flats are a natural fl atland formed by salty water evaporating to leave just a vast, smooth crust of salt. It was here that George Easton and John Cobb vied for the world land speed record in the 1930s, and Craig Breedlove claimed his world records in the 1960s in Spirit of America. Formula One The cars in Formula One are designed to tight regulations that are continually changing.
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