Talk:MAZDA 787B/@comment-94.181.135.249-20170622125505/@comment-27123099-20170626230843

Not a large enough track.

There's a reason manufacturers use huge ovals (like 12mi in length) to test the top speed of their really fast cars. Even at 2.5mi long, the Indy circuit doesn't have long enough straightaways to allow you to reach top speed.

Ehra-Lessien in Germany, owned by the Volkswagen Group is really the best place on earth to test the top speed of virtualy any car. It has a 5.4mi long straightaway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehra-Lessien

Without the chicanes on Mulsanne, we probably could reach top speed for most cars on the Le Mans course, but we may never see that in RR3.