Believe it or not, weight isn’t much of a factor in top speed, though it does affect acceleration. Ask anyone who’s built a car to run at Bonneville.
“Believe it or not, weight isn’t much of a factor in top speed, though it does affect acceleration. Ask anyone who’s built a car to run at Bonneville.”
I remember one record setting car that had a huge load of dry ice on board to for cooling. The weight was less of a handicap than the drag from ducting cooling air would have been.