Bombshell Betty, a 1952 land speed racer and two-time World Speed Record breaker, tears across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Christopher Wilson A car sits idle on the Bonneville Salt Flats as ...

HOT ROD Garage’s co-host Alex Taylor traded the drag strip ... almost 20 years of land speed racing. The car has seen its ...

In many situations, aerodynamic drag is proportional to ... right to vehicles judged on their top speed alone: land speed racing. A land speed record car features an extremely deliberate design ...

“I treat Bloodhound as a very low-flying airplane,” says Ron Ayers, the chief aerodynamicist for the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project—a Mach-busting car designed to exceed 800 mph.

That title currently belongs to the Thrust SSC, which in 1997 became the first (and so far only) car to break the sound barrier, achieving a 763.04 mile-per-hour land speed record. Although it's ...

Or you can utilize the winch to pull the car up during loading. Measuring 26 feet long and 5.5 feet wide, the trailer can handle an assortment of land speed record wannabes, especially since there ...

In 1926, Babs became the world's fastest car by reaching a speed of 171.02 mph.In the 1920s Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire became famous in the story of the World Land Speed Record. The long ...

The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV is a former Le Mans car turned land speed racer, which set the current 500 kg -1000 kg EV land speed record back in 2013. The Autolite Lead Wedge, recently for sale by ...

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Each piece of bodywork, rivet and joint has been individually made for its specific place to ensure the car doesn't fall apart at top speed ... break the current record, placing the Bloodhound ...

With two races left in the NHRA season, the importance of securing the No. 1 spot in qualifying has risen for teams entering this weekend’s Nevada Nationals. In Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock ...