If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. This is a selection of record-breaking runs, but there are dozens more land speed records … There's a new world land speed record of 448.757 mph (that's 722.1 km/h) – and what's even more astonishing is the record was set in a 50-year-old car, the Challenger 2, which first attempted the feat back in 1968.
The Budweiser Rocket is an American 3-wheeled land vehicle, generally resembling the 1970-era Blue Flame land speed record holding vehicle in appearance, powered by a hybrid liquid and solid-fuel rocket engine with an extra booster from a Sidewinder missile, that has been claimed as being the first vehicle to have broken the sound barrier on land.

Long course system, vehicles over 175 mph, is a 5 mile track (2 miles to get up to speed, then three one mile timed segments). With specs like that, the Bloodhound Project could possibly set the fastest land speed record yet.In Los Angeles, Waldo Stakes of Land Speed Research Vehicles, is designing a vehicle which is planned to go way past The Bloodhound Projects 1,000 mph.

Two wheels or four, I'm all in. American race car driver Jessi Combs was posthumously awarded the women's world land speed record on Wednesday. Green plans to use all 135,000 hp to get the car past 1,000 mph, which, incidentally, is faster than the world record low-altitude fighter jet pass at 988 mph, 15 feet off the ground. Land speed records. These aren’t your weekend local tuners speed trials, but multi-million-dollar vehicles testing their mettle, and metal, against the fastest vehicles, at least on land, in the world.

Current Land Speed Record Contenders! At the moment, though, it seems that funding is falling a little behind to facilitate final testing and adjustments.

Short Course system, vehicles under 175 mph, is a 3 mile track (2 miles to get up to speed, then one timed mile). Want to go faster with the same body? “We were sealed in a control bunker about 200 yards away” from a second sealed bunker with the rocket, On top of this, a borrowed EuroJet EJ200 military jet engine generates an additional 100,000 hp. Ever since the first Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1907, and possibly back when the first Mercedes-Benz was produced in 1896, drivers took an interest in speed. Noble has advanced the land speed record three times since 1983. But with his last effort ending in bankruptcy, it's fair to wonder if we can go any faster.

Is it really I have been wrecking cars for as long as I've been driving them but I keep coming back for more. Add power. But to stand on a playa desert, watching what in turns seems to be a mirage, a boat, a big black locomotive and then, for fleeting moments, ThrustSSC, chased by its own roostertail of dust, and then to hear the two unmistakable sonic booms, is to experience a moment so emotionally charged that all others pale in comparison.” – The Bloodhound ProjectI recounted some amazing speed records that started way back from the first days of the automobile.
A complete timeline of world Land Speed Records running back from Andy Green's current 766mph record to Gaston Chasseloup-Laubat's original 1898 record. That record, 763.035 mph [Mach 1.016] has stood strong since then. This makes it a little safer than the light-the-fuse and hope-for-the-best rocket types.Rocket testing was done recently in Cornwall, England. In July, after getting some of the body work completed, “A friend came by to see it and as he watched me building this 55 foot long rocket car while working in the dirt he said…”Your story is like the World’s Fastest Indian only on steroids.” Denise saw all the body panels on the car and said…”It is starting to look big and scary.” I think it looks purposeful and powerful.”The World Land Speed Record could belong to the Sonic Wind for a long time if lives up to it’s name and purpose.

Otherwise, ta ta!

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