The Blitzen Benz in August 1914, when it set a new record for speed at the Bonneville Salt ... Photo: Fairfax Media Archives ...

Blue Flame, Thrust2, Budweiser Rocket, Sonic Arrow, Aussie Invader III, and Thrust SSC. It is Thrust SSC which set the existing land speed record in 1997. Its driver was Andy Green. The former RAF ...

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

Bloodhound has now joined the exclusive club of land ... the high-speed trials and it will now return to England. The seven vehicles to have also raced above 600mph are Sonic 1, Blue Flame ...

A British man named Richard Jenkins has just broken the world land speed record for a wind-powered vehicle. The high-tech contraption he used is called the Greenbird, the fifth wind-powered ...

It should be no surprise, then, that the internal combustion engine and the land-speed record have evolved at roughly the same pace over the last century or so. In order to celebrate the ...

It’s here, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, where race car driver Craig Breedlove shattered the land speed record 60 years ago ... Its sleek, silver-and-blue fuselage sat on three wheels and ...

It's estimated that the car hit 104 mph on this run, but the fatal incident caused the US to ban public record runs, hence ...

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 ...

Campbell was the holder of 13 world speed records set in the 1920s and 1930s, both on land and water. His son, Donald Campbell, who took over the testing of Blue Bird K4 after his father died in ...

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 ...

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 hits a new speed milestone of 629 mph, bringing it closer to breaking the sound barrier—setting the ...