DID YOU KNOW? - One key design feature of the McLaren F1 is the positioning of the driver - in the middle, with two passenger seats aft of either side. That makes everything equally distant from the wheel. Every standard F1 has a modem which allows customer care to remotely fetch information from the ECU of the car in order to help aid in the event of a failure of the vehicle.
Moto GP
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Weight – 177 Kg
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BHP – 175
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0-62mph (Seconds) – 3.08
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Top Speed – 285 Km/h
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Engine Displacement – 998 cc
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Cost - £18,000
DID YOU KNOW? - 800 Michelin tyres are used by each rider over the course of a Moto GP season, around 20 rear tires and 8 fronts at each race weekend. At the age of 21 years and 342 days, current champion Casey Stoner became the second youngest rider to win the premier-class title in the 59-year history of world championship Grand Prix racing.
Airbus A380
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Weight – 276,800 Kg
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BHP – A lot, I can’t even work it out... Answers on a postcard please.
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0-62mph (Seconds) – Not Measurable
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Top Speed – Mach 0.96 (1176 Km/h)
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Engine Displacement – 4x Engine Alliance GP7000 @ 81,500 lbf each
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Cost – £660 Million
DID YOU KNOW? – The wings are so big on the A380 that 5,600 people could take shelter from the sun and rain underneath them. The two decks of the plane measure a total of 550m squared, that is equivalent to 10 full size squash courts. The height of the A380 can be matched by standing 5 giraffes on top of each other’s heads. It has a range of 8,200 nautical miles which means that it can fly non-stop from New York to Hong Kong. The Wright Brothers’ first flight was shorter than the A380’s wingspan.
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