The Arrow in Flight versus OCTAVIA RS

For the arrow shot by Olympian Laurence to end up in Markus’s closed fist, you need really precise cooperation, speed and the ability to take decisions and act in a fraction of a second. The arrow flies at a speed of 215 kilometres per hour, or 60 metres per second.

The distance between the bow and the target is 70 metres. However, as a flying arrow describes an arc, rather than remaining at the same height, the distance over which the arrow can be captured from the open window of a moving car is reduced to about 30 metres.

Success or failure, then, is a matter of millimetres and hundredths of a second. Laurence needs to keep calm and shoot the arrow at precisely the moment the car literally flies by her. Markus, in that car, then has a time-frame of about 0.5 seconds in which to catch a 68 centimetre long arrow in his hand.

The winged arrow is very important for ŠKODA. Since 1926, it has been part of the carmaker’s logo and a symbol of its progress and march towards the future.