Land speed racing is a pursuit of ultimate speed above all else. Most cars typically run on huge, flat salt pans, and racers run flat out for miles in a straight line, attempting to push their ...

A car which set the world land speed record in 1926 has completed the same course on which it reached 152mph (245km/h) a ...

Jessi Combs' tragic death this week has brought a renewed interest to one of the most extreme sports on Earth: land speed racing. The automotive legend died trying to beat her own 2013 women's land ...

Lightning Motorcycles has unveiled the Tachyon Nb, a modified, streamlined version of the Strike electric sportsbike designed to take aim at the electric motorcycle land speed record, targeting speeds ...

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Pete Aardema and Kevin Braun build custom racing engines in San Diego, California and their latest creation is a 6.0-liter V12 that’s being prepared to go hunting for land speed records. While Aardema ...

Time for a quick update on Shea Nyquist's quest to break the land speed record in a fully electric streamliner. The bike is up and running, albeit without any fairing panels on it yet, and Nyquist has ...

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'” - This line is from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier and has been quoted probably too many times, but I found it ...

Tudor was lucky enough to be in Wales just as Sebastien Loeb was securing his 8th World Rally Championship title during Wales Rally GB 2011 and wrote a guest blog for ITV News covering the rally ...

When Bonneville Speed Week rolls around, you know records will soon be set. There’s one benchmark, though, that doesn’t fall year after year—the piston-powered top speed record. Danny Thompson, son of ...

Making machines go fast has always been a seemingly unavoidable impulse for humans. With the advent of radio control, it’s possible to get a taste of the rush without putting your life and too much ...