[Land-speed] British Steam effort 139.843mph

drmayf drmayf at mayfco.com
Fri Aug 28 08:35:08 MDT 2009


Jeeze, I hope not! You cannot average averages... mathematically 
incorrect.   

mayf
Matt Shuss wrote:

> Ok, so let me get this straight.
>
> I run 200mph over the mile, which equals 18 seconds.
> My back-up run is only 100mph, which equals 36 seconds.
> My BNI average is 150mph.
> My FIA average is 27 seconds which equals 133.333mph?
>
> So the BNI is average speed.
> The FIA is average time.
>
> Is my math correct?
> Is that right Glen?
>
>
> Matt S.
>
>
>
>> Kilo 143 avg. Mile 148. avg. The FIA uses the total of  of the ET 
>> divided by
>> 2 and scta uses the avg. of the speed MPH for the total mph. There is a
>> slight difference in the results.
>> As I don't have the actual ET to do the math we will have to wait for 
>> the
>> official results. they went down at 144 and returned at 151. Don 
>> Wells was
>> driving.
>> Glen
>
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