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Showing posts with label land speed. Show all posts
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Friday, August 25, 2006
Diesel digger devastates record
Andy Green does the business at Bonneville. After Audi won the 2006 Le Mans 24 Hour race with a diesel-engined car we now see the diesel land speed record taken by a British car powered by two diesel engines from a JCB backhoe. JCB have their eyes on Jaguar, part of the Ford fire sale, too.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Dizzy Addicott
I'm watching the History Channel about Alcock and Brown flying the Atlantic. Captioned on-screen is Dizzy Addicott, test pilot. I thought I haven't heard that name for some time - not a name you are likely to forget.
Visions of a Lotus 15 with a 3½ litre Buick motor come to mind, a front-engined sports-racer painted yellow if I remember rightly. Described as "a pretty exciting car with 350 bhp and weak brakes." Goodwood mid-sixties.
He drove a Lotus Elite in the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood in 1962 and won at the 1963 Boxing Day Brands meeting in an Elva-Alfa Romeo sports car, built in Sussex. He also raced an Elva 100-DKW in Formula Junior and a DKW 800s in saloon car racing.
Dizzy also announced plans to go after Craig Breedlove's 407mph land speed record in the 60's, using a vehicle based on a Swift fighter. The project was stillborn.
Addicott was also in at the start of the mini special trade with the DART which spawned the mini-marcos and the mini-jem.
A quick check on the web and I learn that Dizzy died in a car accident a short while ago. They don't make them like that anymore.
Visions of a Lotus 15 with a 3½ litre Buick motor come to mind, a front-engined sports-racer painted yellow if I remember rightly. Described as "a pretty exciting car with 350 bhp and weak brakes." Goodwood mid-sixties.
He drove a Lotus Elite in the Tourist Trophy at Goodwood in 1962 and won at the 1963 Boxing Day Brands meeting in an Elva-Alfa Romeo sports car, built in Sussex. He also raced an Elva 100-DKW in Formula Junior and a DKW 800s in saloon car racing.
Dizzy also announced plans to go after Craig Breedlove's 407mph land speed record in the 60's, using a vehicle based on a Swift fighter. The project was stillborn.
Addicott was also in at the start of the mini special trade with the DART which spawned the mini-marcos and the mini-jem.
A quick check on the web and I learn that Dizzy died in a car accident a short while ago. They don't make them like that anymore.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Buckeye Bullet
Sister website SCOOT got a big hello from Pete Miller at the Buckeye Bullet Program. Wazzat you may say? Check it out here.
The Buckeye Bullet holds the all-time electric car speed of 321 MPH, the U.S. Land Speed Record at 315 MPH, and the International Electric Land Speed Record at 271 MPH.
The car is powered by batteries that provide power to an electic motor.
There are links to podcasts and the Buckeye Bullet Blog.
The Buckeye Bullet holds the all-time electric car speed of 321 MPH, the U.S. Land Speed Record at 315 MPH, and the International Electric Land Speed Record at 271 MPH.
The car is powered by batteries that provide power to an electic motor.
There are links to podcasts and the Buckeye Bullet Blog.
Saturday, February 23, 2002
Unsung Heroes
I've started reading Hot Rod Magazine again after a long spell away - I first read it as a schoolboy back in the sixties, even appeared in it once at the Street Rod Nationals in Memphis in 1971. I noticed a passing reference to Don and Rick Vesco having raised the absolute World Land Speed Record for Wheel-Driven automobiles to 458 mph in November 2001. This breaking the previous record set by England’s Donald Campbell in 1964 by more than 55 miles per hour.
As an avid car nut this was news to me - it goes to show that unless you have slick PR the media can ignore the greatest of achievements.
Britain's own Andy Green, an RAF fighter pilot, returned from the USA after breaking the sound barrier on land to little acclaim - there was no one to meet him at London's Heathrow airport. In autumn 1997, Green, driving for Richard Noble in the jet-powered Thrust SSC broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.002 setting a new two-way average record run of 763.035 mph.
As an avid car nut this was news to me - it goes to show that unless you have slick PR the media can ignore the greatest of achievements.
Britain's own Andy Green, an RAF fighter pilot, returned from the USA after breaking the sound barrier on land to little acclaim - there was no one to meet him at London's Heathrow airport. In autumn 1997, Green, driving for Richard Noble in the jet-powered Thrust SSC broke the sound barrier at Mach 1.002 setting a new two-way average record run of 763.035 mph.
Sunday, January 07, 2001
Project Blueyonder
Cycling Gold-medalist from the Sydney Olympics, Jason Queally, is to make an attempt on the World land-speed record for a human-powered vehicle. The record is currently held by the American Sam Whittingham at 72.24 mph.
Known as Project Blueyonder the vehicle will be built by Reynard, the company that designs the BAR Formula One car for Jacques Villeneuve and also provides chassis for the Champ Car series in the United States. Based in Brackley, Northants Reynard operates out of a state-of-the-art high-technology park close to Silverstone racing circuit.
Queally will make his attempt at high-altitude in either Nevada or Colorado in October. Coincidentally the absolute world land speed record was set by the British Thrust SSC Project on 15th October 1997, the first supersonic land speed record in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada, by averaging 763.035 for two runs. Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green was the driver of the car, while Richard Noble was the project leader
Known as Project Blueyonder the vehicle will be built by Reynard, the company that designs the BAR Formula One car for Jacques Villeneuve and also provides chassis for the Champ Car series in the United States. Based in Brackley, Northants Reynard operates out of a state-of-the-art high-technology park close to Silverstone racing circuit.
Queally will make his attempt at high-altitude in either Nevada or Colorado in October. Coincidentally the absolute world land speed record was set by the British Thrust SSC Project on 15th October 1997, the first supersonic land speed record in the Black Rock Desert, near Gerlach, Nevada, by averaging 763.035 for two runs. Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green was the driver of the car, while Richard Noble was the project leader
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