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Autoweek, Mike Duff
The Land Speed Record has moved steadily upwards, from the 39 mph set by Frenchman Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat in an electric Jeantaud back in 1898 to the 763 mph Thrust SSC achieved in ’97.
Yet nearly 24 years later the record seems to be at serious risk of being stuck there forever. The UK-based Bloodhound project that had created a car targeting 1,000 mph through the combination of jet and rocket propulsion went bankrupt in 2018, having never run the car at more than 210 mph on a British airport runway.
Now the man who saved Bloodhound from the scrap yard then is also stepping aside, putting the project (and the car itself) up for sale. Ian Warhurst had recently sold his successful engineering company when he bought Bloodhound, and put a significant amount of his own money taking the car to the Hakseen Pan in South Africa, a salt flat where – running exclusively on jet power – the car managed a top speed of 628 mph. But getting beyond that requires the extra assistance—and huge expense—of a secondary rocket propulsion system.
I HOPE HE MAKES IT. I’M MAX, AND THAT’S THE WAY I SEE IT!
Youtube: Max Allen Speaks
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