Bugatti Mistral claims land speed record for a production open-top car Record car is a one-off example costing $14.7 million ...

ford ranger backs the bluebird land speed record project BRENTWOOD, Essex, 5 September, 2011 – The durable Ford Ranger has joined forces with the Bluebird team as it attempts to set a new ...

His son, Donald Campbell, became the last person to set a land speed record without jet propulsion in 1964 when he clocked ...

Also in 1964 he set a new world land speed record of 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre in Australia. On 4 January 1967 Donald Campbell was on Coniston Water in Bluebird when the front of the boat flipped up ...

The family bent makes sense, since Bluebird is named for a car Sir Malcolm Campbell, Wales' grandfather, who raced a century ago. Campbell set a number of land speed records, as did his son Donald ...

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way. The car started as a four-wheel drive electric race car ...

It’s here, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, where race car driver Craig Breedlove shattered the land speed record 60 years ago this week. Breedlove had been going fast since he started drag racing ...

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 record-breaking ... 2001 that Bluebird would return to the village and people that my father held so dear to him.” Campbell broke eight world speed records on water and on land in the ...

On a Mission: The vehicle cost less than £1,000 to build A host of unconventional vehicles - including the world's fastest shed - are preparing to break their own land-speed records. Drivers and ...

but electric racers have long been out there chasing land speed records as well. At the most famous land speed trials, such as Bonneville’s Speed Week, speed runs take place over miles and miles ...

More people have been to see Donald Campbell's Bluebird in its first two months on show than visited a museum for the entirety of 2023. It is the first time the hydroplane has been on display in ...