[FAST LS1]

I have a lot of friends that ride sport bikes. They've talked before about how fast bikes
are around a road course but I tend to wonder just how fast they are in comparison
to cars? How close hypothetically would a stock C5 ZO6 be in comparision to a
Hayabusa or any other current production bike on a road coarse given a skilled
driver/rider? I remember the old article of the Viper vs the then fastest production bike
in one of the car magazines and the Viper won, so I'm guessing it's close but maybe the
bike would win. That's also taking into acount an expert rider on the bike aka someone
that's crazy.

[NickS]

The car's going to be faster.

For some comparison:

The MotoGP lap record at Malaysia is a 2:03:822 held by Rossi.

The F1 lap record is held by Montoya is a 1:34.223

The MotoGP lap record at Catalunya is a 1:45.472 set by Rossi in '03.

The F1 lap record is a 1:17.450 held by Shumey.

Yes, its a bit tough to compare an F1 car to any other sort of road race vehicle, whether it have 2 or 4 wheels. You could compare AMA Superbike times to Indy Car times at Laguna Seca. I recall checking them earlier last year and the Indy cars are quite a bit faster than the bikes.




-N