We still haven’t got over the Ferrari’s paintjob, and even if it was more tasteful the way the stripe fattens over the whole nose is just clumsy. I’m sloshing around in the moulded carbon shell too – it’s built for bigger people. I resolve to solve it with spanners when we stop (in the end I just stuff a hoodie under my backside). I usually slam seats down as low as possible, but in this fixed bucket I can barely see the GT4 RS over the dashboard. Like Autodrom Most itself, it feels scaled up. It’s a good excuse to look at them alongside each other, the impact they have, the scale and size of them. Even two days later the 804bhp McLaren Elva and 819bhp Ferrari 296 GTB will remain demonstrably faster than anything else, hitting 165mph on the main straight, pushing so fast out of corners that they put you on different parts of the circuit to anything else, require different lines and approaches.īut we start with all the cars trawling round together for the cameras at 30mph. The next morning precisely no one makes a beeline for the 800ers. We’re cowed by its scale, the elevation and direction changes, the cresting blind entries.
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Although the new trains can run at the speed of 320 km/h (about 200 mph) along the Shinkansen tracks, mini-shinkansen allows the maximum speed of only 130 km/h (80 mph), which increases the travel time comparing to what Shinkansen offers.A full lap seems to take ages, we regroup at the end of the main straight and discover we’ve all come to same conclusion: Most is about 30 per cent bigger than we expected. It took about 5 years to bring this plan to life, but in 1992 the new Yamagata Shinkansen line started to operate. Apart from widening the track gauge, new trains boasting narrower cross-section had to be introduced, as original Shinkansen trains were not able to go through tunnels along the old lines due to their increased width. Why not convert part of the existing train tracks to the Shinkansen standard and connect them with the famous railway, thus extending the network even further? This concept of converted lines got the name mini-shinkansen.īut converting the lines was not the only problem. It worked wonders, but later another idea occurred. Every day during the rush hour, the line operates 13 trains per hour, each carrying over 20.000 passengers! Impressive, right?Īs mentioned above, Japan was the first country to build special railway lines dedicated to high-speed travel, designed with 1435 mm / 4 ft 8.5 in gauge in contrast to older lines' narrower gauge of 1067 mm / 3 ft 6 in. The very first line that started it all, Tokaido Shinkansen, is among the busiest high-speed rail lines in the world, that carried over 5.6 billion passengers since its first day in service. On the contrary, it was always about proudly leading the way into the future. It was never about keeping up-to-date with modern technology. Over the decades, the system was relentlessly modified and improved. Now the Japanese high-speed rail network is over half a century old, but don't you dare think that it in any way outdated. In fact, Japan's Shinkansen was such a big success that it inspired many European countries to implement very similar technology! Thanks to that, France proudly introduced its first high-speed TGV trains in 1981, followed by Germany's Intercity Express 10 years later. Luckily, Japanese bullet trains proved to be nothing but success on all fronts and became the public's favorites in just a few years.
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