These days, the kind of car that breaks a land speed record doesn't exactly look like one you'd see at an intersection — it ...
Chris Raschke of the Speed Demon Racing Team died Sunday while attempting to break a land speed record at the annual Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week in Utah. Reports claim the veteran racer lost ...
A driver going 283 mph trying to set a land speed record during a racing event at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats died Sunday after he lost control of his rocket-like vehicle called the Speed Demon ...
A racing driver was killed as he attempted to break a land speed world record on Sunday, after he lost control of his vehicle at speeds approaching 300 mph. Chris Raschke, who was 60, was ...
Walt Arfons, always the devoted Goodyear man, standing on the salt in 1965. Art Arfons in 1964 on the Bonne­ville Salt Flats, where he set a land speed record of 536.71 mph. Walt Arfons never smiled.
Dennis Zainfeld's Smart car in the driveway offers little clue. At 8 feet long, it's a fraction of the beast inside that is his real baby: a 28-foot-long aluminum splinter that Zainfeld believes will ...
From five miles away you can hear the thunderous roar of the car's twin Donovan aluminum hemi racing engines that crank out 4,000 horsepower. Within seconds, a cloud of dust appears on the shimmering ...
The "Blue Bird" car is expected to return to historic Pendine Sands in south-west Wales. A century ago, this beach witnessed a motoring milestone: the moment a 350-horsepower Sunbeam car named Blue ...
Automakers have competed for the title of who has the fastest car arguably since the dawn of the automobile. It's one of the most perennial questions of automotive history — how fast can we get a car ...
You might wonder how it is that Richard Noble OBE, entrepreneur and holder of the land speed record (LSR) between 1983 and 1997, is now, at the age of 79, considering a tilt at inspiring the fastest ...
A fully driverless Maserati MC20 Coupe reached 197.7mph at Kennedy Space Center last week. A fully driverless Maserati MC20 Coupe reached 197.7mph at Kennedy Space Center last week. is transportation ...