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Good, better… BETTES!

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For most people, driving at 305km/h (190mph) would be a terrifying experience. But let’s ramp that up a bit. Imagine you’re staring down a drag strip, alongside another driver whose only goal is to kick your butt. As your heart pounds, you realise the start signal is a green light, proceeded by a series of amber lights, which illuminate in sequence a half-second apart. Leaving the line before the green light will result in the dreaded red light – a foul start. Launch the car with too much power and you’ll remain stationery, drowning in a sea of wheel spin. Use too little power and you’ll bog down the engine, or just be slow away – either way, your race is cooked before you’ve left the start line. In the next seven seconds you’ll need to change gear four times, using four separate gear levers, steer the car in defence of forces that try to launch you into the wall on either side of the strip, hit 190 mph, cross the finish line just 1320 feet (402 metres) from the start line and then quickly apply the brakes and deploy the parachute before you run out of road and into [...]

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