Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Hey I love both, but you need a very trick car to beat a bike around most circuits. Start getting into single seaters and ground effect and sure, they'll waltz off into the distance but hardly practical for popping down the shops for a pack of fags afterwards.

Much bigger margin of error for cars on track though, which is comforting.

Are we talking pros or amateurs, because if it's amateurs, not really, depends on how good the biker and driver are.

I overtook most bikers at the 'Ring apart from the Brits who were camped in the same field as us. These guys were grade A maniacs. One of them wheelied from the bridge to the first proper corner, and the back end was sliding Micky Doohan style before he'd put the front wheel down. That evening back at the campsite he said he hit the limiter on his R1 a few times per lap. Given that his was modified I'm guessing that's between 190-200 mph a few times per lap...

I'm lapping every circuit I've been to quicker than biker mates.