Actually cars tend to outperform bikes on tracks with a lot of corners. Cars are a lot more stable when turning and can thus corner faster. Clarkson was harping on about the same subject a few years back in one of his Top Gear magazine columns, they put a Porsche 911 up against a Honda Blackbird (i think - it was a high performance bike, anyway) around Silverstone and the car was setting the faster lap times.
As much as I'd like to put my name against the "Bike would win" column, my experience tells me otherwise... Put simply, new cars with electronic traction control will outcorner bikes on 90% of track corners. About the only place I'd rather be on a track bike is a series of alternating corners but apart from that the car would have it.
You wouldn't happen to be a fencing contractor from wollongong by any chance would you?@#*%'en Insane
Now where's that AU $2,000,000 I hid under my bed
Buying a secondhand highly modified streetbike isn't really comparable to buying a car off the showroom floor.
Lats year Speedweek and Motor Magazine organized two races of bike vs porsche, one at queensland raceway and one at oron park ( I think). The R1 won both races, with queensland raceway being the closest.
Yer the Hayabusa is the fastest production bike and and only does a max 332km/h a shitload under the bugatti.
Oh and on that note how much more power did it need to go from 150mph to 253mph? 730bhp wasn't it. So how much more would you need to get the Hayabusa up to 407km/h, I wonder?
