Nobody had tried to push the Land Speed Record over 200mph—let alone with a four-ton, 23-foot 6-inch car powered by engines displacing nearly 45 liters. Everything, from the coupling shaft to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
At more than a century old, the MG brand still persists, though in a way that’s perhaps slightly at odds with fans of its classics. Once the pride of Abigndon, MG is now a subsidiary of Shanghai-based ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Eddie Presnull from Liberty, Texas, has officially raised the bar to 273.889 mph in his stock-body 2015 Shelby GT350, ...