The Texas Mile Event has come to an end and this year was another one for the record books. We saw the return of some familiar faces and many newcomers to the runway race-track. As you may recall, the entire point of this event is to see how fast your car can go. That may sound simple, but the idea behind much of racing is to beat your competition around a circuit type track. Simply having the fastest car in a straight line race is more closely related to drag racing where such vehicles as Funny Cars and Top Fuel Dragsters hit 200mph in a � mile.
In a place where everything is bigger - Texas, that is - several fans of speed have put together an event on a much longer straight than a � mile. Anyone in a normal car is able to reach their terminal velocity at this event and that is what makes your adrenaline pump. In all honesty, most people don?t hit more than 100mph in their car at any point in time. Number one, it’s illegal and number two, there is usually not enough room to get up to speed and sustain it for any period of time.
This year?s event gave those speed junkies a chance to let their powerful automobiles and motorcycles reach their maximum speed. The highest speed this year was set by a motorcycle doing 278.6mph. To take a full look at the race results continue reading below.
Hit the jump for more details on the Texas Mile Event Recap.
Texas Mile Recap: March 25-27, 2011 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/texas-mile-recap-march-25-27-2011-ar107232.html
Eric Brandon Don Branson Tom Bridger Tony Brise Chris Bristow
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