• Pirky
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    511 day ago

    In a similar vein, when you drive anywhere in your vehicle you don’t keep your engine at the red line at all times. You would wear it out within 20,000 miles at best. In fact, the engine almost always tries to be at the lowest rpm feasible.
    We should strive to be like our vehicles: operating at the lowest load possible, hustling only when necessary.

    • @[email protected]
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      1020 hours ago

      Right. That speedometer goes all the way to 270 km/h but on average we drive at about 30km/h in a city. That’s why our cars can last 400000 km while a Formula 1’s engine last about one race.

      • @[email protected]
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        920 hours ago

        Your analogy is a lot worse than the one from the guy you replied to. Formula1 engines last multiple races since each car is only allowed 3 engines per season. And the reason they last so short is cause they are running at insane amounts of compression and rpm, not because of the speed the cars are driving.

        A Formula 1 car doing 30kmh in stop and go city traffic would break down after a lot shorter distance than a road going sports car doing a constant 300kmh on the Autobahn