One of my mates is a Data Analyst for Aston Martin (I think I posted a piccie of me in a DBS last year) and he has the arduous task of taking them out for a spin every now and then (well, a bit more than that, it's half his job). On Tuesday he took this out for the day, and home for the night...
He also put the new Rapide (not yet released - it's a luxury 4-dr saloon, 6l V12 producing about 470bhp) on the dyno as they were doing braking and acceleration tests. 0.3g acceleration, which is roughly 0-60 in about 6/7 seconds, so quite easy. 5g braking, which is hard very hard. I'm sure those of you who watch F1 have seen drivers locking the wheels good and proper, well it works on a similar principle, heat spots will develop on the wheels and one will grip first, well, when one of them gripped first the rear of the car snapped and bounced off the side of the dyno! Bare in mind that wheel speed would have been in excess of 100mph during this test, he and others shat themselves.
Not a bad job, huh?
He also put the new Rapide (not yet released - it's a luxury 4-dr saloon, 6l V12 producing about 470bhp) on the dyno as they were doing braking and acceleration tests. 0.3g acceleration, which is roughly 0-60 in about 6/7 seconds, so quite easy. 5g braking, which is hard very hard. I'm sure those of you who watch F1 have seen drivers locking the wheels good and proper, well it works on a similar principle, heat spots will develop on the wheels and one will grip first, well, when one of them gripped first the rear of the car snapped and bounced off the side of the dyno! Bare in mind that wheel speed would have been in excess of 100mph during this test, he and others shat themselves.
Not a bad job, huh?
