To set an official land speed record, two runs must be completed within one hour, and their average speed is recorded as the official result. With the help of land speed record holder Richard Noble, ...

I’m a simple man: I love race cars and I love semi-trucks ... It’s all done in the name of aerodynamics, which any land-speed racer will tell you is more important than sheer horsepower.

What kind of vehicles can claim the outright land speed record? Quite a few, actually. But not motorcycles. Craig Breedlove and his jet-powered Spirit Of America 'car' changed everything at ...

Nobody had tried to push the Land Speed Record over 200mph—let alone with a four-ton, 23-foot 6-inch car powered by engines ... Isle of Wight—the British challenger to dominant American ...

A Kiwi engineer is on a mission to set a land speed record higher than 422km/h - in a car he built in his shed. Seventy-two-year-old Dave Alexander has spent the past nine years building the ...

BILLINGS -- Not that Ron Tesinsky's land speed record in an open roadster isn't jaw-dropping enough, but there's an added wow factor when the Billings car builder reveals that his steering gave ...

Dodge can't quite quit the HEMI, and after spending time in the 2025 Durango SRT Hellcat, we can understand why.

Denton, who teaches chemistry and geosciences, broke a land speed record last month in the "AA" modified sports car class, when he was clocked at more than 300 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats ...

“She cheers us up every week,” one Labour MP said of Kemi Badenoch’s sparring matches against Keir Starmer at PMQs. Another pointed out how visibly more relaxed the Prime Minister seems in his weekly ...

Government released its long-awaited Strategic Defence Review, as it sets out its view of the armed forces for the next decade ...

After a week’s racing in the bushveld and savannah of South Africa’s North West province, it all came down to the final phase of the last stage, to decide the overall win at the first-ever South ...

The Koenigsegg Jesko is one of the fastest cars on the planet, setting record after record. But the hypercar maker wants more speed records—and may not stop till it has all of them. On its ...