Argumentative Essay About Race Cars

Through time, people have come up with different ways to help improve technology and advance everyday life. People have used science to help create things that help people go faster, run more efficiently, and overall work better. One of these technology advancements was cars, but more specifically race cars. Race cars are now able to accelerate quicker, have better materials for racing, but are even safe than before. This is because of many advances in technology, tires, and materials used. One advance in technology is making hybrid cars. Toyota, for example, at the Le Mans race, used a hybrid car in the race entering the class LMP1-Hybrid, which is the fastest class at the race. The hybrid cars not only save fuel, but they also add extra elastic horsepower and due to not using as much …show more content…
The first winner, A.Lagache and R.Leonard driving the Chenard & Walcker, had a race time of 57.21 miles per hour. The race times forward, seem to have a pattern where they are within 5 miles of each other for 3-4 years, then they increase by 8- 10 miles per hour. This shows that nothing dramatically changed during this period and then something about the cars changed making them more aerodynamic, so they went faster. The most current race time was in 2016. The drivers, N.Jani, R.Dumas, and M.Lieb, drove the Porsche 919 Hybrid, which went 135.44 miles per hour. The same car won the year before in 2015 with an even better time of 139.31 miles per hour. This is more than double the speed of the first race car to win. What is even more impressive is that not only have the speeds increased, but the length of the track has increased. In 1923, the track measured 1372.9 miles and in 2016, the track measured 3252.0 miles. That is over 2000 miles longer, yet the cars are going faster. This shows just how far cars have come. (Le