If I were to drive my Volkswagen with a V6 engine at 140mph, it would run out of fuel within an hour. How can these types of cars with V8 do hours of driving at over 140mph? What kind of black magic is this.
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In 1999, Toyota’s car consumed a 4.95 kg of fuel per lap. If this fuel was gasoline this would be about 3.75 liters. By 2019 this had reduced (because of race regulations requiring cars consume less fuel) to 2.36 liters. Since a lap is about 8 miles long as get 0.29 liters consumed per mile
If you had a Volkswagen Jetta 2019, you would have fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon, which Wolfram alpha tells me gets 0.09464 liters per mile in normal highway driving. Even if we cut the fuel efficiency of your vehicle in half because you are driving at top speed, the Volkswagen is pretty favorably efficient.
Of course, the lmp1 car runs at an average speed of 248 kph and the Jetta has a top speed of 205 kph, so we start to see some of the differences there.
https://www.racecar-engineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-11-at-11.12.02.png
https://www.greencarcongress.com/2018/03/20180308-jetta.html
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