I've been trying to figure this out for a while.

 

In the F-Zero games the cars are able to travel over 1000 km/h, which would obviously end the race much faster if it was a real sport. The games only depict each race as lasting 3 laps, so obviously that wouldn't be a long enough race to satisfy the audience.

 

Now, let's consider these factors:

 

-Each car is driving at over 1000 km/h.

-The track is at least 500 meters.

-The race is 30 laps long.

 

With those factors in mind, what total time would the race accumulate?

Are you sure about this?

 

1000 km/h = 278 m/s

500 m with that speed takes 1.8 seconds

30 laps at that speed takes 54 seconds

 

The audience might be a tad disappointed.

I never knew that though.

 

Thanks for the formula I needed though.

Oh sorry, no formulas included in the last post.

 

Speed in m/s is

Speed in km/h * 1000 / 3600

 

Time per lap is

lap length / speed in m/s

 

Number of laps, naturally, is

number of laps * time per lap

 

Am I guessing right when I think you'll use this for your animated project? If so, I'd suggest changing two variables: lap length and the speed of the vehicles.

 

Lap length because, even today, with our sub sci-fi speeds, are way longer than 500 m. For example, the Talladega Speedway (which is just a weird oval shape) is over 4 km long. So unless there's some dramatic change in racing culture, you probably don't want to make it shorter. One reason, I can imagine, would be that the spectators should be able to see the whole race track, but that's what race monitors are for!

 

Speeds because, as audience, you won't see a thing when the vehicles come whipping past at almost supersonic speeds. Lowering that speed would make it way more entertaining, while still being dangerous enough to be worth looking at.

Yes, this is also an important part of my animated project.