1969 Charger 500 prototype race car test - results

[odcics2]

https://www.allpar.com/cars/dodge/charger/1969-charger-500-report.html

Interesting part is the "correlation times" developed by Engineer George Wallace.

It can calculate speeds using temps, humidity and barometric pressure.

So lets say you go 197.5 in August when it's hot and humid. If it was cooler, lets say 50 and dry, you would have gone 200.10 mph. Big fact to remember is that you actually ran 197.5, according to the timers.!

Any calculated times are NOT actual speeds, but mathematical numbers. Great to compare changes in a race car over different weather events.

 

[91r/t]

Good read! Cool stuff indeed. Thanks.

 

[Lionized]

What an awesome read!

 

[odcics2]

Some good reading material here while we hunker down.

 

[Richard Cranium]

It's interesting to see what they were doing to gain a couple tenths here & there to obtain an extra 2 or 3 miles per hour.