Long distance machine

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by jza8

Hi Ainars! You must have had some long breaks, otherwise 100mph x 20 hours = 2000 miles.

My point was that even if you go fast in straight bits average speed is a lot lower. If you drive for 3 hours at 100mph all the time and cover 300 miles, then stop for 15 minutes to fill up and have a bite your average speed drops to 92mph. And that's not taking into account that you cannot drive 100 mph all the time as you have junctions, slip roads, towns, traffic lights, borders to navigate at slower speeds. Don't forget that pulling into and out of petrol station also takes extra time not only the time you are stationary, look at F1 - pitstop might be only 3 seconds but real cost is 20+ seconds. I might have been doing 100mph on the open road but average comes down to 60ish.