Andy Green is a rock star in Bonneville. You’d expect no less, given he’s the only human to travel supersonic on land. To witness him holding court in the local,…
Your article about the Lotus 49 brought back memories [Rebirth of an F1 wonder, June]. In the 1990s I lived in a small village outside Northampton. On Sunday afternoons I…
Back in the 1950s the FIA was decidedly particular about the type of vehicles used for speed record attempts, insisting they should be ‘wheel driven’ as per Henry Segrave’s Golden…
Atlantic City Speedway in New Jersey proved ephemeral. Built using 4.5 million feet of timber, on the site of the dismantled Amatol munitions factory, it arrived with a bang in…
One moved the Land Speed Record up to 152.33mph in 1926; the other took it supersonic to 763.035mph in 1997. One hundred years to the day since Sir Henry Segrave…
Parting Shot: April 23, 1926 Brooklands, Surrey In a bid to smash the Land Speed Record, racing driver JG Parry Thomas purchased Count Louis Zborowski’s 1923-built 27-litre Higham Special. Here’s…
Piero Taruffi scored his most famous successes on four wheels. In May 1952 he became the third driver to win a Formula 1 grand prix with Ferrari and five years…
The world's first 600mph car, Spirit of America Sonic I, has been auctioned in a public sale for over $1m
British driver John Cobb broke the Land Speed Record three times – twice before the war and again in 1947. Here’s Cobb, age 47, sitting in the 28ft 8in Railton…
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In 1928, having taken the Land Speed Record four times but recently lost it once more, Campbell is determined to regain it and is searching for a suitable course to unleash…
There have been a lot of great racing cars, but I don't really get very excited about things like the Lotus 72. Every time I look at an old car,…
Donald Campbell's water speed record craft, Bluebird K7, will go on display at Coniston after the end of a bitter legal battle. The man who led its restoration and recovery says it will be left a "dead machine"
Hi,” said the smartly dressed lady in the hospitality unit at the seventh annual Rennsport Reunion held at Laguna Seca at the end of September, “but can you remind me…
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I first met Craig at Black Rock Desert when we were running Thrust2 in 1983. He kind of busted in on us when we were in a technical meeting in Bruno’s…
Craig Breedlove walks away from his Spirit of America Sonic 1 land speed record machine having made history. Breedlove achieved 600.601mph across the measured mile, beating his existing 555.485mph effort…
In a life dedicated to speed, Craig Breedlove was the first person to hold land speed records at 400mph, 500mph and 600mph, survived a 675mph crash, and never stopped dreaming about the next attempt
