Emerson Fittipaldi set the all-time fastest speed at last year`s Indy 500 time trials with a one-lap speed of 225.575 m.p.h. Here`s how fast he was moving:
– At that speed, Fittipaldi was traveling at the rate of approximately one football field per second.
– He could finish the Boston Marathon in a little under seven minutes.
– He was going about 100 m.p.h. faster than an average Air Force fighter jet at takeoff.
– He could go around the bases four times before Rickey Henderson could run from home to first.
– He could drive from Chicago to Indianapolis in 50 minutes; Chicago to Milwaukee in 23 minutes; Chicago to New York in three hours and 35 minutes;
Chicago to Miami in six hours and 19 minutes and Chicago to Hollywood in nine hours and five minutes.
– If Fittipaldi were to race Ray Harrison, the winner of the first Indy 500 in 1911, he could finish the race, attend a three-hour Cubs game, watch a 60-minute episode of ”L.A. Law” and still have 28 minutes before Harrison crossed the finish line.
– If his race car`s engine weres put into an average riding lawn mower, he could cut a half-acre lawn in about 5.6 seconds.
– If he were going 225.575 m.p.h., an unidentified Cook County judge said Fittipaldi would be fined the maximum fine of $500 if he was nabbed by the police.
