How to drive at 300mph (by Le Mans winner Andy Wallace) #155

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by racing driver Andy Wallace, who knows more about driving very, very fast in production cars than anybody alive. Twenty-five years ago he clocked a record-breaking 240mph in the McLaren F1, and he's since gone an awful lot faster than that. What does it take to drive at such astonishing speeds?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:07.0	Hi everyone, welcome to episode 155 of the Intercooler podcast with Dan Prosser my co-host Andrew Frankel.
0:14.0	Now this week it's a good topic we're talking about going very very fast in production cars.
0:20.0	We're talking about production car top speed records and joining us we've got Andy
0:27.2	Wallace a little bit later on he comes in halfway through the episode because he is
0:31.4	the man who set the production car speed record in the McLaren F1 and in the Bugatti
0:38.8	Shiron. So arguably no one alive knows more than him about going very, very fast in production cars.
0:46.0	We were supposed to stick to production cars only, but of course Andy Wallace is a Lamon winner.
0:53.0	Andrew is a Lamon obsessive so of course we get sidetracked a little bit
0:57.0	but this is a great episode. Andy Wallace is just such good value.
1:02.0	I think you're really going to enjoy this one. So please rate
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1:15.2	helps so much and it just helps us find a bigger audience and do more with the podcast so
1:20.8	thank you for listening. Andrew as we we're recording this, it is the 31st of March 2023.
1:27.6	It's a Friday.
1:29.6	That means to the day it is precisely 25 years since the McLaren F1 broke the production car top
1:38.3	speed record at Arelessian in Germany when it achieved a two-way average of 240.1 miles per hour with a certain
1:50.0	Andy Wallace driving friend of the... A certain very brave Andy Wallace. and to talk about going fast. Going fast.
2:03.0	Talk about his record runs.
2:04.0	Few people in the world better qualified to talk about going fast
2:07.0	that Andy Wallace because it's not just...
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