Formula 1: Summer Holiday Top Trumps – How does F1 compare?

• Weight – 15,550 Kg
• BHP – 2,400
• 0-62mph (Seconds) – Not Measurable
• Top Speed – Mach 2 (2,120 km/h)
• Engine Displacement – Two EJ200 Turbofan Engines @ 20,000 lbf each
• Cost - £66.7 Million

DID YOU KNOW? - The Typhoon is capable of supersonic cruise without using afterburner. This is referred to as "super cruise". In 2005, a trainer Eurofighter T1 was reported to have had a chance encounter the previous year with two U.S. Air Force F-15Es over the Lake District in the north of England. The encounter became a mock dogfight with the Eurofighter allegedly emerging victorious.

Thrust SSC

• Weight – 10,700 Kg
• BHP – 110,000
• 0-62mph (Seconds) – 2.5
• Top Speed – Mach 1.02 (1228 Km/h)
• Engine Displacement – Two Rolls Royce Spey Turbofan Engines @ 25,000 lbf each
• Cost - £20 Million

DID YOU KNOW? – Thrust SSC holds the World Land Speed Record, set on October 15, 1997, when it achieved a speed of 1,228 Km/h (763 mph) and became the first land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier. In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 343 m/s (1235 km/h, or 770 mph, or 1129 ft/s, or approximately 5 seconds per mile).

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