Lewis Hamilton beat his fellow Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg by 7-thousandths of a second. Here is a tweet from the Mercedes team:
Yes – after a full lap of the circuit the difference between the two drivers’ times was 0.007 seconds!
The Mercedes team then tweeted this:
That is nice, because it leads to a starter activity. What can we work out?
We can work out the average speed of the drivers.
0.335m ÷ 0.007s gives us the speed in m/s.
Multiplying by 3600 will give us the speed in metres per hour.
Dividing by 1600 turns this into mph.
I get the average speed as 108mph. Not bad for a circuit with lots of twists and turns!
