Speed of vehicles built by humanoid giants

Let's imagine a race of Giants, with an average height three times that of a normal human being. Let's also imagine that these Giants are completely identical to humans, proportionately speaking... that is, they haven't disproportionately larger or shorter legs, hands, or any other bodypart. Every single segment of their body is three times larger that of an average human.

Let's also imagine these Giants create vehicles, namely chariots and triremes. Those vehicles will be three times larger than the average "human" chariot or trireme. Everything abides by this proportion, be it wheels, horses, sails, ores, etc...

Now, I would like to ask... what would be the speed of said giant chariots and triremes? Would they be three times faster, or would the function of the speed vary in another way with the augmenting size?

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