Land Speed Record News

Taken from the September 1997 issue of Motor Sport On July 17 1937, during practice for the German Grand Prix, Bernd Rosemeyer fought his wayward Auto Union around the Nürburgring…

"We deployed the parachute at 600mph and immediately you had 6g deceleration," Thrust2 driver Richard Noble tells us. "The weird thing about this extreme deceleration is that it upsets your…

Having been far from these climes for the last three weeks, it’s entirely possible you have known for longer than me that a temporary export bar has been placed upon…

Pick one highlight from your entire year and condense it into one 450-word piece? Now that I’ve sat down to write this I am starting to appreciate the task I…

Today, the hybrid rocket engine specially developed for the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project will fire for the first time. The project is headed by Richard Noble, who broke…

Eighty-five years ago today, March 29, 1927, Major Henry Segrave became the first man to exceed 200mph on land. Aboard his 1000bhp Sunbeam ‘Mystery S’, Segrave roared through the measured…