How are Formula 1 (F1) cars able to accelerate so quickly?
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A Formula 1 car usually weighs about 1/4 to 1/3 of what a street car weighs (640kg vs 1200kg for a hatchback to 2000 for a luxury sedan), but has an engine that’s 2-4x more powerful (650 hp vs 150 hp to 300 hp for many production cars).
Those factors multiply together so they result in a much larger increase in acceleration than you can get from a street car.
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