Just heard this on the news on the way to work. Cops caught a guy doing 210kph in Toronto :fail: They say it's a Mitsubishi Lancer.... but EVO?

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_36354.aspx

and here's where it happened:

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=King's+Highway+10+%26+Mayfield+Rd,+Brampton,+Peel+Regional+Municipality,+Ontar io&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=40.677559,72.597656&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FQpTmwIduPc9-w&split=0&ll=43.733089,-79.821939&spn=0.044281,0.070896&t=h&z=14

Man that guy needs to get his car crushed, doing it in the middle of all those houses.

the power of the evo is to great for some it brings out the wild child in some too much

Can't fix stupid.

that stretch just north on hwy 10 is notorious for racing/speeding. I'd say it's likely that he was speeding north of those houses ( there is nothing there) and when he slowed down entering the city part is where they caught up to him. Not condoning any of it just saying.

If it's an evo that he had hopefully it's auctioned and not crushed, it would be a shame to see the animal hurt for the masters wrong doing

hwy 10 is pretty dead, still should never pass the speedlimit. It was probably a ralliart or evo, it would take forever for a lancer to get to 210km/hr.

lol.

that does not look like an evo

Canadians :duh:

:peepwall:

that does not look like an evo
Looks like it's just a stock picture of a car pulled over. Don't think there was reporter there in the middle of the night.

i guess but that looked like some jerk-off who just picked up a lancer and put the pedal down. That was not a EVO

LOLs, it's not an EVO... not even a Ralliart.... maybe it's the 2.0L I4

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_36354.aspx

I know a US football field is 100 yards long but how long is a Canadian futbol field?

ok seriously - it DOES not take 3 football fields to stop from 130...

But maybe they are canadian futbol fields lol

Wow, that's insane. They showed the guy's face also when they were cuffing him. No blurry face like in the US.

I wish track events were cheaper and more publicized in my area. Every weekend at 1-3am its ricey exhaust and faint police sirens in the background. It's this kind of driving that makes my insurance premium so high....

In the end - i'm glad no one was hurt.

Canadian football fields end zone to end zone are 150 yards. so 450 yards to stop from 210 sounds a little high if anything. at least for an evo... that pic has a single exhaust so no evo here.

Okay, I'm going to use physics to help us settle the math behind these claims:

From kinematics, we know that given a stopping distance and an initial speed, we can calculate a car's deceleration:

v² = vo² + 2ax

where v = final speed, vo = initial speed, a = acceleration and x = distance.

I looked up the stopping distance values for a Mitsubishi Lancer and sources seem to give an average of 125 feet from 60-0 (compared to 110 feet for an Evo). Plugging in the numbers (after first converting into SI units), we get that the average deceleration a Lancer feels while hard braking is around -21 mph/s (so roughly three seconds to go from 60-0).

Now making the very reasonable assumption that braking is uniform from any speed (in theory you have to factor in conditions such as brake efficiency at higher speed, or wind resistance, but we can neglect those factors without loss of accuracy), we can calculate how long it'd take the Lancer to stop from 210 kph (131 mph).

Plugging our new known information into the formula above, we can obtain that the new stopping distance from 131-0 for a Lancer would take roughly 593 feet. So that is almost exactly 2 football fields.

However, if you count for the fact that the average human takes 0.5 second to react and to physically move from the gas pedal to the brake, you will find that at 131 mph, you will have traveled another 96 feet or so, bringing the total stopping distance from if you saw some obstacle in the way to 689 feet, which yes is less than three football field lengths (900 feet) but not that far off...

Edit - For an Evo, stopping distance from the same speed (excluding reaction time) would still take 521 feet. Moral of the story - driving excessively fast is unsafe.


(Work if you wanted to know)

Disclaimer – I am very OCD about units, but they do make calculations
much more complete.

12 in 2.54 cm 1 m
125 ft x ----- x ------- x ------ = 38.1 m
1 ft 1 in 100 cm

60 mi 5280 ft 12 in 2.54 cm 1 m 1 hr
----- x ------- x ----- x ------- x ------ x ------ = 26.8 m/s
1 hr 1 mi 1 ft 1 in 100 cm 3600 s

210 km 1000 m 1 hr
------ x ------ x ------ = 58.3 m/s
1 hr 1 km 3600 s

v = 0 m/s
vo = 26.8 m/s
a = ?
x = 38.1 m

v^2 = vo^2 + 2ax
v^2 – vo^2 = 2ax
v^2 – vo^2
a = ----------
2x

thus

(0 m/s)^2 – (26.8 m/s)^2
a = ------------------------
2(38.1 m)

a = -9.4 m/s^2


Applied to second situation:

v = 0 m/s
vo = 26.8 m/s
a = -9.4 m/s^2
x = ?

v^2 = vo^2 + 2ax
v^2 – vo^2 = 2ax
v^2 – vo^2
x = ----------
2a
thus

(0 m/s)^2 – (58.3 m/s)^2
x = ------------------------
2(-9.4 m/s^2)

x = 180.8 m, which if you convert:

100 cm 1 in 1 ft
180.8 m x ------ x ------- x ----- = 593 ft!
1 m 2.54 cm 12 in


For the Brembo-loaded Evo,

110
110 ft = --- x 38.1 m = 33.5 m
125

60-0 stopping acceleration:

(0 m/s)^2 – (26.8 m/s)^2
a = ------------------------
2(33.5m)

a = -10.7 m/s^2

thus, stopping distance from 210 kph:

(0 m/s)^2 – (58.3 m/s)^2
x = ------------------------
2(-10.7 m/s^2)

x = 158.8 m, which converting:

158.8
158.8 m = ----- x 593 ft = 521 ft.
180.8

Can't argue that lol

well there we go. 200 meters is too far you would seriously mess anything up that got in front of you.

Canadians :duh:

:peepwall:

said the guy that hides in chimneys

Def. Not an evo...cuz if it was he wouldn't have been
caught! :rock:

what a retard

If your going to push your car invest in a radar detector....I read an article from my buddies law class that says the 50/km over street racing law is Unconstitutional and therefore can be thrown out in court....There's a case that has been escalated to the Supreme Court of Canada right now...But, you probably wont get off driving that fast in residential, thats what backs roads up North are for.

Well to do anything like that on a public road anywhere even remotely close to Toronto is not very smart at all.

I volunteered at a road racing session in Manitoba this past summer and got to do some hot laps with me evo after the events for the first day were over. 185km/hr in 4th gear on the straightaway before I had to:
a) brake for turn 1
b) change gears into 5th cause I was topping out 4th anyways

On a straight runway that was just over a mile long I was hitting 210km/hr before having to brake to turn around and come back the other way. What a rush.

Keep it safe & legal guys.

If your going to push your car invest in a radar detector....I read an article from my buddies law class that says the 50/km over street racing law is Unconstitutional and therefore can be thrown out in court....There's a case that has been escalated to the Supreme Court of Canada right now...But, you probably wont get off driving that fast in residential, thats what backs roads up North are for.

That Motor Vehicle Act section about street racing / speeding over 50 kph/hr. is nothing compared to the Criminal negligence charge he could/ probably will be facing.

If I remember correctly the minimum fine for being caught with a radar detector is around $600.00 in Ontario and imply that the detector will be seized also. Still a good tool but it is becoming less useful as the different police forces are investing in ''Lightdar'' technology.

That Motor Vehicle Act section about street racing / speeding over 50 kph/hr. is nothing compared to the Criminal negligence charge he could/ probably will be facing.

If I remember correctly the minimum fine for being caught with a radar detector is around $600.00 in Ontario and imply that the detector will be seized also. Still a good tool but it is becoming less useful as the different police forces are investing in ''Lightdar'' technology.

Laser Veil and Blinder X-treme M-45 to the rescue. Don't leave home without it!

^ I've never used or been caught with one in Manitoba but apparently they are illegal there too. I've seen signs entering Manitoba on the 16 Highway from Saskatchewan saying so.