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 ...

Ahead of the final two races of Season 9 in London, Formula E showed off the "unlocked" potential of its Gen3 electric race car. The EV series has claimed the world record for indoor land speed ...

Jessi Combs' ultimately fatal quest to break world land speed records ... to break the record and making the attempt in her North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger, which was built ...

The Bloodhound supersonic car reached 628 miles per hour in 2019, but the team hopes to pass 1,000 miles per hour with the addition of a rocket Courtesy of the Bloodhound Land-Speed Record Project ...

Nearly 50 years ago, on Oct. 23, 1970, the Milwaukee-built Blue Flame rocket car blasted through the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, setting a world land speed record of 622.407 mph for the "flying ...

But the oil light came on at the first mile and the car was pulled over, dissolving any hope of two separate land speed records for the same car — at least for now. Records are made to be broken ...

Nearly a year after her land-speed record ... Combs’ certified speed still beats the previous record of 512.71 mph set in 1976 by Kitty O’Neil in a three-wheeled car at the same desert.

We lost racer, fabricator and television personality Jessi Combs last August, after she crashed her jet-powered land-speed-record car in the ... Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger to 483 mph ...

Land Speed Record (LSR) cars are divided into two ... For example, printout information from Danny Thompson's 5,200 lb. Challenger II car record run in 2018 shows the car accelerated 134 mph ...

So the Challenger II sat in that trailer for ... Few companies want to sponsor a land speed record car. Media coverage in Bonneville, Utah, is minimal. If things go wrong, whether with the car ...

About 6 a.m., they shot Trudy as she backed her car out of the ... Thompson as much as his land speed adventures. Even now, no one holds more speed and endurance records than he does.

In 1968, a team led by Danny Thompson’s late racing driver father Mickey Thompson built the Challenger 2 car, with the aim of setting a new land speed record at Bonneville. Thompson senior never got ...